Publisher's Synopsis
This book is part memoir, part biography focusing on the fifteen months that Sylvia Plath lived in North Tawton, Devon from September 1961 to December 1962. This was an extraordinary time for Plath as she finished the proofs on her first novel 'The Bell Jar' and in the autumn of 1962 produced most of her dazzling 'Ariel' poems. Elizabeth Sigmund recalls the year of her friendship with Plath from their first meeting drinking tea to attending music concerts together. Gail Crowther considers the impact Plath's domestic life had on her creative work during this period drawing for the first time on unpublished letters, documents, and previously unseen resources from a wide range of archives in the UK, US, and Canada.
