Euphoria

Narrated by Kelly Burke
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Pub Date 13 Dec 2022 | Archive Date 13 Dec 2022

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Description

A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and wanting to do and be so much more. The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life, reimagined in fictive form by Elin Cullhed, who seizes the flame of Plath's blistering, creative fire in Euphoria, lending a voice to women everywhere who stand with one foot in domesticity and the other in artistic creation. As Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes unravels through the heady days of their first summer in Devon together, Sylvia turns increasingly to writing to express her pain and loss, yet also her resilience and power. She has decided to die, but the art she creates in her final weeks will set her name, and the world, ablaze.

A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between...


Advance Praise

"Euphoria is about the fissures between motherhood, love and creativity but is also a celebration of Plath's power." ―Evening Standard

"Original...vivid, highly dramatic treatment of the intimate details of Plath's troubled life and marriage to the poet Ted Hughes." ―Booklist

"Imagines the hopes, fears, dreams and memoirs of [Plath's] final months, as well as the growing tensions between the worlds of creativity and domesticity. Based on archival research but explicitly a work of fiction, Elin Cullhed's book aims to focus not on Plath's death but instead on the complexities and contradictions of her life." ―History Revealed

"Compelling." ―BBC History Magazine

"Euphoria is about the fissures between motherhood, love and creativity but is also a celebration of Plath's power." ―Evening Standard

"Original...vivid, highly dramatic treatment of the intimate...


Available Editions

EDITION Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN 9781696609906
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
DURATION 9 Hours, 24 Minutes

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