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The Daffodil Days

Yazan: Helen Bain
Seslendiren: Finty Williams
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 Bloomsbury presents The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain, read by Finty Williams

'Beautiful, affecting and deeply impressive' Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses

In the early 1960s, in a small town near Dartmoor, the church bells ring. The people of North Tawton go about their days, catching glimpses of one another’s lives.

There’s the local GP, who knows more about his patients than he would sometimes prefer. There’s the young shop assistant at Kestrels, who understands that the ladies who come there for a new outfit sometimes hope to find a new self. There’s the tenant farm labourer who rings the tower bells at the church three times a week, the notes – harmonious and clashing – rippling out across the rooftops of the town.

Amid all these lives, a young couple move into focus. New to the town with their small daughter, they have escaped London for a quieter existence in the thatched house beside the church, Court Green. The life they intend to build here – out of fresh lino tiles, second-hand furniture painted with hearts and flowers, and expertly-cooked suppers for weekend guests – will be a good and happy one.

The Daffodil Days depicts a pivotal year in the marriage of 20th-century literature’s most infamous couple, witnessed by the people they lived among. It is a kaleidoscopic portrait of this enigmatic pair, refracted through the rich inner lives of a rural community caught – if only for a moment – in their light.©2026 Helen Merrilees Bain (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural İngiltere Samimi
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Beautiful, affecting and deeply impressive, this is an ingeniously constructed novel, told slant. I loved it.
An exceptional novel, with shades of Hilary Mantel. Helen Bain takes the familiar and makes it utterly new. I loved it. I miss it
A luminous, deeply researched debut, The Daffodil Days reimagines Sylvia Plath's Court Green period through a chorus of village voices – letting the known story fall away until what remains feels bracingly human and close. Helen Bain's prose is exact and alive, and the novel builds with a quietly devastating inexorable force you can't look away from
A pointillistic, unsentimental, and intimate portrait of Sylvia Plath through the eyes of those whose lives she brushed up against in rural Devon. Bain renders Plath’s humor, wit, resilience, and heartbreak from new angles, at once strange and familiar. Not a word is out of place. Full of understated lyricism and a deep respect for Plath and her world, The Daffodil Days is an exquisite and spellbinding debut
Helen Bain has produced something quietly miraculous. The Daffodil Days brings the characters in a rural community to life in a way that evokes Andrew Miller’s A Land in Winter ... the depth of Bain’s meticulous, loving research is never obtrusive. It’s a captivating debut: a compassionate, perceptive and truly wonderful book
You would be forgiven for thinking that there was little left to say about their time in Devon that has not already been said; but by coming at its subject from the viewpoints of others, this virtuoso, deeply researched and utterly convincing debut achieves something quite extraordinary (Melissa Harrison)
Told through shifting viewpoints, this fictionalised account of the period leading up to Plath’s tragic death is utterly compelling
Stunning
A beautifully achieved story of daily and extraordinary life
A love letter to Dartmoor, and to the writer who lived there, Bain’s is a smart debut that sheds new light on one of our most enigmatic creatives
Bain’s style is both old-fashioned and radical … A cleverly quiet, unassuming novel about two people who were anything but
I adored this novel. It’s beautifully written, intricately plotted, wears the precision of its research lightly, and is exquisitely moving. A very special book
Bain brings Sylvia to life with extraordinary skill… it's exquisitely written
Bain deftly employs her vast research with prose that feels tactful, subtle and assured. Readers familiar with Plath and Hughes will delight in the additional layers of meaning … A quiet, richly drawn debut about the small-town folks who orbited the 20th century’s most famous literary couple
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This is a stunning book. It's about the year before Sylvia Plath’s death not told from either her or Ted Hughes” perspective but from the lives of people who crossed paths with her during her final year. I would recommend some basic research into that year as it does assume familiarity. The research the author has done is astonishing. It is also read beautifully.

A beautiful, moving book.

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I loved everything about this book. I loved the idea of it and then its execution which was perfect. I loved the authentic voices of this cast of ordinary characters on the presence of this phenomenon. But they weren’t ordinary, they were all accorded depth and individuality. I loved making connections between the characters and events. The doctor and the thumb! The narration added to the absolute story pleasure of the experience. Telling Sylvia Plath’s story not tragically but with absolute humanity and poignancy. Highly recommended!

This beautiful book was enhanced by the reading

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From start to finish, The Daffodil Days is packed with intricate detail. Expect to hear about everything from the lichen on the walls of Sylvia and Ted's garden to the changing fashions of the 1960s. This isn't a work that judges a relationship that's often speculated about but little known. Rather, it's a story about small-town lives that are every bit as significant as the famous characters who drop into their midst. As a resident of North Tawton, I was delighted by the author's exacting research. This was a gripping listen in an unusually gentle but wholly absorbing way.

Immersive and immensely detailed

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Terrific narrative structure that was beautifully read by Finty Williams. Rich fictional characters brought to life interwoven with factual details from Plath’s tragically short life.

Moving, insightful fictional exploration of a great poet.

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This book is beautifully written and read. I will re-listen because I enjoyed it so much.

Superb, Exquisite.

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