Rhys was haunted by the figure of the first Mrs Rochester, the mad
wife in the attic in Bronte's Jane Eyre. Antoinette Cosway is a
Creole heiress, whose family traps the young Rochester into
marrying her. Soon after the marriage, the rumours of insanity and
inbreeding in her family turn him against her. Alone in the house
on the Yorkshire moors, she succumbs to madness and is imprisoned
in the attic, while downstairs, Jane Eyre is trying to steal her
husband. (Kirkus UK)
Antoinette Cosway's family live in Jamaica, an island as gorgeous as Eden. However, colonial tensions are becoming unbearable as the islanders repeatedly terrorise the 'white cockroaches' in the Cosway household. Antoinette's marriage to a visiting Englishman seems to offer an escape from this claustrophobic society, but while on honeymoon her husband receives a mysterious letter. When the rumours start to tangle with half-heard conversations the couple suddenly find themselves travelling towards an uncertain and terrible future.
Inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and drawing upon memories of her own Caribbean childhood, this classic study of betrayal is Jean Rhys' brief, beautiful masterpiece.
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