Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love

5 best books like Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love (Yehuda Koren): A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming, Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, Stranger, Baby, Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath

A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

Author	Kerri Rawson
ISBN	1400201756

What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer?
 
In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she...

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

Author	Jonathan Bate
ISBN	0062362437

Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and ecology; of fishing and beasts in brooding landscapes.

With an equal gift for poetry and prose,...

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Author	Anne Sexton
ISBN	0618492429

An expression of an extraordinary poet's life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and students. Anne's daughter Linda Gray Sexton and her close confidant Lois Ames have judiciously chosen from...

Stranger, Baby

Author	Emily Berry
ISBN	0571331327

The powerful new collection from award-winning poet Emily Berry.

Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour...

Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath

Author	Kate Moses
ISBN	1400035007

This engrossing debut novel depicts Sylvia Plath's feverish artistic process in the bitter aftermath of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes--the few excruciating yet astoundingly productive weeks in which she wrote Ariel," " her defining last collection of poems.
In December 1962, shortly before...