Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Groundswell Speaker 2024 and then as a serving

and then as a serving lady to a princess in the late Middle Ages

animals and everyday people – all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own

With chapters organised by craving

OrionISBN: 9780575084346Extent: 448 pages

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Groundswell Speaker 2024 and then as a servingOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate