Book Interview: Joanna Biggs looks at beginning again when life falls apart

"When Joanna’s marriage to a fellow writer broke down four years later, she returned to Plath, the writer who had dazzled her as a teenager, to try to work out how she might negotiate the world as a newly single woman - the result was revelatory."

Joanna Biggs’ ‘A Life of One’s Own’ combines memoir, biography, and literary criticism in the most imaginative and inspiring of ways. Picture: Hillery Stone

• A Life of One’s Own
• Joanna Biggs 
• Weidenfeld & Nicolson, €22