Forty-five: Poems

The daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes looks back on forty-five years of loves, losses, pain, hope, and joy in this revealing and poignant poetry collection

“Hughes writes about tragedy with [Sylvia] Plath-like wit.”—Entertainment Weekly

Breaking forty-five years of near-silence on the subject of her life, Frieda Hughes opens up through the medium she knows best—poetry. In this extraordinary collection of personal poems, she takes the reader step-by-step through the difficult and inspira...