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I thought Wide Sargasso Sea was a brilliant book, beautifully done. Indeed, I very much enjoy works that look at a story from a different angle. Tom Stoppard did it wonderfully with Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead which I saw performed a very great many years ago when I was in England.
Obviously, anything like that has to be done very well indeed. I think Jean Rhys and Tom Stoppard both did so, because each work complemented and enhanced the original classic. The fact that Rhys's book and Stoppard's play have each become modern classics in their own right attests to how good they were.
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