Frieda Hughes

An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023 'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' - Oprah 'This book pulses with a defiant wonder at the living world, as wild and unruly as our feathered hero' - Polly Morland, author of A Fortunate Woman Then, just in time, before I swung the spade again, I saw,...

In 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: 'I feel I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of. Wait til you see. The Cambridge sketch was nothing compared to these.' Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration but, while her poetry is celebrated around the world, her...