A biography of Hughes's mistress, Assia Wevill, this book views the Sylvia Plath-Ted Hughes relationship and marriage, and presents the journey that shaped her life. This is a story formed by the pull of fatal attraction and obsessive love, fidelity and adultery, cruelty and tenderness, dependence and rebellion, envy, and self-sacrifice.
Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev are both distinguished literary journalists and authors, and have been researching Assia Wevill's story for 15 years. In the course of their research they have unearthed a mass of personal documents, and interviewed all the key witnesses, most of them speaking here for the first time. Koren and Negev's previous book, In Our Hearts We Were Giants, a dwarf family's survival of the Holocaust was published in eight languages, and inspired two documentary films.
"Unforgettable in its intensity. Easily the best work ever on Hughes and his world. One of the most wonderfully well-written and powerful literary biographies I have encountered." Roger Lewis, Mail on Sunday
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