Euphoria wells and escape

and escape

Michel Faber’s short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid imagination

whose uncontrolled desires and extensive vanity both test his family’s loyalty and stretch their finances to the furthest possible limit

the profligate Guido

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Euphoria wells and escapeA woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and yearning for so much more. The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life. As Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes unravels, Sylvia turns increasingly to writing to express her pain and loss, yet