Some followers of Sylvia Plath are deeply suspicious of Ted Hughes's motives for publishing this collection, written over a 25 year period following her suicide, chronicling the love and pain of their relationship. But Seamus Heaney says it all: "To read Birthday letters is to experience the psychic equivalent of 'the bends'. It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance leave you gasping . . . "
(Jenny Baker - bwl 10 August 2001 ) |
