num_pages: 151
description: Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.
language: English
title: Wide Sargasso Sea
titlecomplete: Wide Sargasso Sea
characters: Aunt Cora, Edward Rochester, Godfrey, Mr Mason, Antoinette Cosway, Richard Mason, Annette Cosway, Grace Poole, Pierre Cosway, Tia, Christophine
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, School, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Feminism, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 88527
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: -126201600000
name: W.H. Heinemann Award
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd