In 2019 Oxmarket held an exhibition of work by RJ Lloyd. Lloyd illustrated Ted Hughes book ‘The Cat and the Cuckoo’. Alexis at The Sussex Bookshop in South Street will be stocking a delightful book called The Daffodil Days written by Helen Bain which is about a year in the life of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Platt.

Alexis says ‘Join us for an evening of conversation with Helen Bain, author of The Daffodil Days, a beautifully descriptive, lyrical novel depicting a pivotal year in the marriage of one of literature's most infamous power-couples, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
It is an intimate portrait of this enigmatic pair, focusing on Sylvia, an imposing, highly educated American woman - as seen through the eyes of her rural neighbours, the shopkeepers, the church bell-ringers, the GP and the postman, in the cloistered Devon community of the 1960s that she has chosen as her home’.

Helen Bain will be reading from her book and signing copies on Friday 24th April at The Assembly Room in Chichester. If you would like to attend then please book a ticket below.