A Lover of Unreason: The Biography of Assia Wevill

Assia was my true wife and the best friend I ever had wrote Ted Hughes after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969 six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate. Diva she-devil enchantress muse Lillith Jezebel - Assia inspired many epithets during her life. The tragic story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been related from one of two points of view: hers or his. Missing for over four decades had been a third: that of Hughess mistress. This first biography of Assia Wevill views afresh the Plath-Hughes relationship and at the same time recounts the journey that shaped her life. Wevills is a complex story formed as it is by the pull of often contrary forces.