Antoinette Conway’s favourite yachting destination

The New York Times has four opinion writers discuss Wicked.

Maureen Dowd: I agree, Lydia, about flipping the script on classics. They’ve done this for a long time with monsters. John Gardner’s “Grendel” from 1971, took the “Beowulf” story from the monster’s point of view. “Wide Sargasso Sea” by Jean Rhys took “Jane Eyre” from the point of view of the Creole heiress who married Mr. Rochester and became “the madwoman in the attic.”

Boat International also mentions Wide Sargasso Sea, albeit in a rather different light as it's on a list of 'Book reads inspired by your favourite yachting destinations'.

Jamaica – Wide Sargasso Sea

For untold stories

For those sun-baked hours when you want to turn back the clock, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is the perfect read. Written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and based on the "mad woman in the attic, Rhys delves into the life of the first Mrs. Rochester. Antoinette Conway’s story unfolds from her youth to her tumultuous marriage to Mr. Rochester. While Brontë’s novel is sharply gothic and cold, Rhys’s version simmers and sweats, set in the sultry heat of 1800s Jamaica. There is nothing idyllic about life on the island and the oppressive glare of the relentless sun is palpable in Rhys’s prose. Wide Sargasso Sea is best savoured with the Caribbean horizon as your backdrop, whether reclining on deck with a cooling breeze or docked at a tropical hideaway. (Milly Robinson)