Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. What am I doing in this place and who am I?'If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. 'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now. Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
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