Wintering - Softcover

An amazingly moving and tender novel, as well as beautifully wrought ... Moses has achieved the extraordinary: found something new to say about Plath - Independent on Sunday Beautifully written: Moses's research has obviously been exhaustive, but it is worn as lightly as air ... she has inhabited the poet, seeing through her eyes, using her language as easily as her own. - Scotsman A new writer of startling, lyrical intensity - Times Literary Supplement Absorbing ... brave and strangely beguiling - Daily Mail Very consuming: Moses has recreated a life of compelling intensity - Daily Telegraph Breathtaking ... a convincing, sympathetic, but unflinching evocation of the subtle tensions and passions of Plath's psyche. - Yorkshire Post

The story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes is one of the best-known, well-documented and controversial in the annals of poetry, romance and tragedy, yet the sequence of poems in Plath s volume Ariel, which seems to work inexorably towards her suicide, was rearranged and reselected for publication by Hughes, while the record of the period when she wrote it is fragmentary. Inspired by Plath s original order, which has never been published, this deeply felt novel recreates her version - a tale of one woman s survival and triumphant renaissance after the death of her marriage, which captures her profoundly poignant, courageous struggle to balance motherhood, artistry and shattered faith. Written with lyrical grace, it is a remarkably imaginative, empathetic response to the voice and spirit that blaze forth from Plath s masterpiece.