The Daffodil Days
Autor Helen Bainen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mar 2027
'Not a word is out of place. Full of understated lyricism ... an exquisite and spellbinding debut' Heather Clark, author of Red Comet
'Luminous ... Helen Bain's prose is exact and alive, and the novel builds with a quietly devastating inexorable force you can't look away from' Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
Devon, 1961. The people of North Tawton go about their days, catching glimpses of one another's lives. A local GP knows more about his patients than he would sometimes prefer. A young dress shop assistant understands that the ladies who come looking for a new outfit often hope to find a new self. A farm labourer rings the church bells, their notes rippling across the rooftops of the town.
Then a young couple arrives. Escaping London with their small daughter for the thatched house beside the church, Court Green, they hope to build a good and happy life there. But by January 1963, the house stands empty once more.
The Daffodil Days is a mesmerising love letter to Dartmoor, and to the enigmatic writer who lived there.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781037203817
ISBN-10: 103720381X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 103720381X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Beautiful, affecting and deeply impressive, this is an ingeniously constructed novel, told slant. I loved it.
An exceptional novel, with shades of Hilary Mantel. Helen Bain takes the familiar and makes it utterly new. I loved it. I miss it
A luminous, deeply researched debut, The Daffodil Days reimagines Sylvia Plath's Court Green period through a chorus of village voices - letting the known story fall away until what remains feels bracingly human and close. Helen Bain's prose is exact and alive, and the novel builds with a quietly devastating inexorable force you can't look away from
A pointillistic, unsentimental, and intimate portrait of Sylvia Plath through the eyes of those whose lives she brushed up against in rural Devon. Bain renders Plath's humor, wit, resilience, and heartbreak from new angles, at once strange and familiar. Not a word is out of place. Full of understated lyricism and a deep respect for Plath and her world, The Daffodil Days is an exquisite and spellbinding debut
Helen Bain has produced something quietly miraculous. The Daffodil Days brings the characters in a rural community to life in a way that evokes Andrew Miller's A Land in Winter ... the depth of Bain's meticulous, loving research is never obtrusive. It's a captivating debut: a compassionate, perceptive and truly wonderful book
You would be forgiven for thinking that there was little left to say about their time in Devon that has not already been said; but by coming at its subject from the viewpoints of others, this virtuoso, deeply researched and utterly convincing debut achieves something quite extraordinary
Told through shifting viewpoints, this fictionalised account of the period leading up to Plath's tragic death is utterly compelling
Stunning
A beautifully achieved story of daily and extraordinary life
A love letter to Dartmoor, and to the writer who lived there, Bain's is a smart debut that sheds new light on one of our most enigmatic creatives
Bain's style is both old-fashioned and radical . A cleverly quiet, unassuming novel about two people who were anything but
I adored this novel. It's beautifully written, intricately plotted, wears the precision of its research lightly, and is exquisitely moving. A very special book
Bain brings Sylvia to life with extraordinary skill. it's exquisitely written
Bain deftly employs her vast research with prose that feels tactful, subtle and assured. Readers familiar with Plath and Hughes will delight in the additional layers of meaning . A quiet, richly drawn debut about the small-town folks who orbited the 20th century's most famous literary couple
One of the many pleasures of this book is the complex, multi-faceted, picture that it creates of the period . Thoroughly recommended
Penned by British author Helen Bain, this poignant debut is based on extremely well-researched facts. Equally whimsical and revealing, The Daffodil Days unveils Plath's untimely unravelling in a new and truly unique way
A breathtaking first novel: elegant, insightful, meticulously crafted, and ingeniously structured. Helen Bain has achieved something remarkable here, demythologizing what we think we know about Sylvia Plath through the glancing perspectives of the figures in her orbit. These incidental characters are rendered with as much richness and complexity as Plath's, and their entanglement is captivating
Helen Bain explores Sylvia Plath's life in reverse while also, cleverly and masterfully, foreshadowing future events ... Simply delicious
Wonderfully accomplished ... A kaleidoscopic yet nuanced portrait of an insecure, ambitious perfectionist, a writer whose hypersensitivity is both the source of her talent and her fatal flaw
For the Plath aficionado, Easter eggs abound ...The Daffodil Days succeeds at keeping Plath alive in our minds for another day and from an entirely new direction
An exceptional novel, with shades of Hilary Mantel. Helen Bain takes the familiar and makes it utterly new. I loved it. I miss it
A luminous, deeply researched debut, The Daffodil Days reimagines Sylvia Plath's Court Green period through a chorus of village voices - letting the known story fall away until what remains feels bracingly human and close. Helen Bain's prose is exact and alive, and the novel builds with a quietly devastating inexorable force you can't look away from
A pointillistic, unsentimental, and intimate portrait of Sylvia Plath through the eyes of those whose lives she brushed up against in rural Devon. Bain renders Plath's humor, wit, resilience, and heartbreak from new angles, at once strange and familiar. Not a word is out of place. Full of understated lyricism and a deep respect for Plath and her world, The Daffodil Days is an exquisite and spellbinding debut
Helen Bain has produced something quietly miraculous. The Daffodil Days brings the characters in a rural community to life in a way that evokes Andrew Miller's A Land in Winter ... the depth of Bain's meticulous, loving research is never obtrusive. It's a captivating debut: a compassionate, perceptive and truly wonderful book
You would be forgiven for thinking that there was little left to say about their time in Devon that has not already been said; but by coming at its subject from the viewpoints of others, this virtuoso, deeply researched and utterly convincing debut achieves something quite extraordinary
Told through shifting viewpoints, this fictionalised account of the period leading up to Plath's tragic death is utterly compelling
Stunning
A beautifully achieved story of daily and extraordinary life
A love letter to Dartmoor, and to the writer who lived there, Bain's is a smart debut that sheds new light on one of our most enigmatic creatives
Bain's style is both old-fashioned and radical . A cleverly quiet, unassuming novel about two people who were anything but
I adored this novel. It's beautifully written, intricately plotted, wears the precision of its research lightly, and is exquisitely moving. A very special book
Bain brings Sylvia to life with extraordinary skill. it's exquisitely written
Bain deftly employs her vast research with prose that feels tactful, subtle and assured. Readers familiar with Plath and Hughes will delight in the additional layers of meaning . A quiet, richly drawn debut about the small-town folks who orbited the 20th century's most famous literary couple
One of the many pleasures of this book is the complex, multi-faceted, picture that it creates of the period . Thoroughly recommended
Penned by British author Helen Bain, this poignant debut is based on extremely well-researched facts. Equally whimsical and revealing, The Daffodil Days unveils Plath's untimely unravelling in a new and truly unique way
A breathtaking first novel: elegant, insightful, meticulously crafted, and ingeniously structured. Helen Bain has achieved something remarkable here, demythologizing what we think we know about Sylvia Plath through the glancing perspectives of the figures in her orbit. These incidental characters are rendered with as much richness and complexity as Plath's, and their entanglement is captivating
Helen Bain explores Sylvia Plath's life in reverse while also, cleverly and masterfully, foreshadowing future events ... Simply delicious
Wonderfully accomplished ... A kaleidoscopic yet nuanced portrait of an insecure, ambitious perfectionist, a writer whose hypersensitivity is both the source of her talent and her fatal flaw
For the Plath aficionado, Easter eggs abound ...The Daffodil Days succeeds at keeping Plath alive in our minds for another day and from an entirely new direction
Notă biografică
Helen Bain received her PhD in creative writing from King’s College London and has master’s degrees in modern and contemporary literature and creative writing from Birkbeck, University of London. She was selected for The London Library Emerging Writers’ Program 2020–21 and The Genesis Foundation Emerging Writers’ Program 2022–23. In 2024, she won The People’s Friend Comedy Fiction Prize. Currently at the Financial Times, she has worked for British Vogue and The Guardian, and she also teaches creative writing at the university level. Helen lives in Sussex. The Daffodil Days is her first novel.