Euphoria

Euphoria is a fictional account of the last year of Sylvia Plath's life, ending two months before her death. In the first person, she tells of the clash between intellectual needs and maternal duties, of her love for her children and her life's need to write, as well as her addiction to her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, which is killing her. Sylvia, "trapped" in a country house and in her increasingly alien body carrying a new life, experiences with devastating force love and jealousy, euphoria and despair, while proceeding step by step along a path whose end is universally known. But you won't find it in Euphoria. It's a novel celebrating Sylvia's vibrancy, passion and creativity. < br> Elin Cullhead has created an utterly convincing literary voice - the result is a gripping novel that many will recognise and no one will be left cold. < br> < br> The book won Sweden's main literary prize, the August Prize for Fiction 2021.