A review by baileybb
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm

5.0

Really excellent book, informative and easy to follow - finished it in a day. It goes through the existing accounts of Plath’s life with a critical eye and draws on new interviews with those that knew her to portray a reasonably rounded picture. Malcolm highlights the possible inaccuracies of biographical writing as she goes, as well as the back and forth between biographers and the Plath estate (which makes it an interesting read for anyone interested in this form of writing).