Wide Sargasso Sea

With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.