Saving Sylvia Plath

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Fan of Sylvia Plath? Imagine she'd survived! Is it better to be dead and famous or alive and a nobody? My novel Darkness & Life imagines just this. Plus musings on the process and challenges of writing. (image by Beck Slater)

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About Saving Sylvia Plath

Imagine Sylvia Plath survived her suicide but in 2015, age 82, is a nobody. Darkness & Life is a Literary novel which asks the question: is it better to be infamous or alive? I live in Wales and am chronically ill so tend to follow not subscribe.

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