Very easy read - I'm not referring to the fairly disturbing content here, but to the smooth prose and the well-controlled momentum that makes this a pleasure to read. There's nothing dull or snagging that pulls me up or makes me want to put the book down. (Though this may be grateful reaction in comparison to bloody Mrs Dalloway of yesterday.) I read it in one sitting, actually. I believe the book is informed by Plath's own life, and the details and the perception in it is sharp and unsentimental. Almost black-humoured in some parts, and with a distinctly non-melodramatic flavour which must have been difficult to maintain when talking about attempted suicides and electric shock treatments.

Recommended.