One 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 which poison her husband against her. Caught between his
demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is
inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of
another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal
work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful
masterpiece. 'She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth
century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of
genius of the twentieth century' Michele Roberts, The Times
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