Euphoria
by Elin Cullhed
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Pub Date 6 Oct 2022 | Archive Date 6 Oct 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.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781838855963 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 304 |
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Featured Reviews
Luke M, Reviewer
Stunning and shocking - Elin Cullhed takes the reader deep into the mind of a brilliantly troubled woman. There's great beauty here, but great sadness and great grief - and it feels like Sylvia Plath has been resurrected much like the Lady Lazarus in her poem. That fire is ever present - a sympathetic and clever recreation of the final year of one of our great writers
Sarah F, Reviewer
I am a really big Sylvia Plath fan, The Bell Jar is one of my favourite books of all time. This book was beautiful, it felt like Sylvia herself had written it. It was like being inside her brilliant yet sad mind.
Ciara D, Bookseller
I devoured this book. I have since gone to read anything by Sylvia Plath that I can get hands on, and am on such a pleasurable journey which started because of Euphoria. I felt Elin Cullhed, and the translator Jennifer Hayashida, captured Plath's voice perfectly, it truly felt authentic.
This is the final year of Plath's life, and she is taking it by its horns - between saving/destroying her marriage, wanting to become a beekeeper, and travelling to Connemara and London, she takes inspiration inspiration from all these things, whilst her never-ending desire to write is at times compromised by her role as a wife and mother.
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