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Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea: Episode 3

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Episode 3

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea, Episode 3

Without her brother and parted from her mother, heiress Antoinette is sent off to school.

Without her brother and parted from her mother, heiress Antoinette is sent off to school. Read by Adjoa Andoh.

Having lost her brother and separated from her mother, Creole heiress Antoinette is sent away to school.

Jean Rhys's most famous novel tracing the early life of the first Mrs Rochester from Jane Eyre.

Read by Adjoa Andoh. 

Abridged by Margaret Busby

Producer: Claire Grove 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.

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Adjoa Andoh reads Jean Rhys's prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

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