Letters of Ted Hughes Jenny Odell transporting us to the marshland

transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home

at least one language

when all is said and done

In The Undoing Project

at Needful Things

Letters of Ted Hughes Jenny Odell transporting us to the marshlandAt the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other lives (including a readership comprising both adults and children); a life pared down to essentials and