Welp. This book...man. I recently read Red Comet, which an extensive biography on Sylvia Plath. I'm pretty sure that when I bought it, I saw that there was a biography on her husband's mistress, so I bought that as well. It's not everyday you get a full biography on a mistress right?
The whole triangle between Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill showed just how messy and flawed human beings are, but whoa. I did not realize Ted Hughes was such a weasel. Let's get into it!
SUMMARY
The failure of the marriage between famed poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been considered from three viewpoints: his, hers and hers. The other "her" in their marriage was that of Assia Wevill. The mistress. The homewrecker. The other woman.
Plath and Wevill shared parallel lives. Both were poets, both were lovers of Hughes for seven years. Both women gassed themselves to death. But the stark difference is that Wevill also killed her daughter. Who is Wevill? What is her story?
For the first time ever, we get a full-length biography on Wevill, a three-times divorcee, career woman, mistress, single mother and everything else in between.
