Her husband becomes increasingly distant and she sinks into madness, haunted by memories of her mother's insanity and of the slave revolt in which her childhood home burned down and her brother died; her own madness may be the result of a voodoo spell cast by her maid Christophine, who certainly has undue influence over her.
The protagonist, a beautiful heiress, falls in love with the Englishman Edward with whom her marriage has already been arranged, and moves with him to her family's country bungalow. Her husband becomes increasingly distant and she sinks into madness, haunted by memories of her mother's insanity and of the slave revolt in which her childhood home burned down and her brother died; her own madness may be the result of a voodoo spell cast by her maid Christophine, who certainly has undue influence over her. FTP name this novel set in the West Indies, a 1966 prequel to Jane Eyre written by Jean Rhys.
The protagonist, a beautiful heiress, falls in love with the Englishman Edward with whom her marriage has already been arranged, and moves with him to her family's country bungalow.
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