by Bee Wilson
First published 2024
When Sylvia Plath's husband leaves her alone to care for their young children, she turns to the kitchen for solace. As she bakes Tomato Soup Cake, Sylvia sifts through memories of her troubled past, the creative pressures that haunt her, and the fragile future she must now navigate alone. This intimate portrait explores how one woman's reliance on the domestic arts becomes a lifeline in a time of personal crisis.
Genres: literary-fiction, domestic-fiction, 20th-century, biography-memoir, psychological-thriller, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century
119 pages · Hardcover · Faber & Faber
Content warnings: depression, mental-illness