In Forty-Five, a candid collection framed by the deaths of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, their daughter, Frieda Hughes, recalls how betrayal and grief often derailed her ambitions.
Sample Verse
On abusive marriage: ''The blows of words, filled out and leaden/Like
little coshes, waited in ambush.''
Lowdown
Hughes writes about tragedy with Plath-like wit.
