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A Later Printing with tanning to the edges of the boards else Nearly Fine in a shelfworn alike dust-jacket ; by Byatt, and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The three novels follow three very different women over a period of decades as they navigate their way through life in different parts of the world. Dolores is a lonely, damaged woman living in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in 1922. She is a maid in the house of a wealthy family, and is in a long-term relationship with one of the sons. Jackqueline is a young woman in the Caribbean in the 1930s. She is the daughter of a plantation owner, and is married to a white British sailor. Wide Sargasso Sea is set in the 1930s in the fictional island of Barbados. Jean Rhys' novel tells the story of a woman, Elizabeth, who is married to a Frenchman, and is living in the Caribbean during the height of the Second World War.; 8vo; 201 pages; Price? ? ?