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I truly believe that certain things come into your life at the time when you’re best equipped to receive them. I never had any interest in picking up Sylvia Plath before, then suddenly I was inexplicably drawn to her work. I am 60% through, and I love it. I think the reason we come to love certain things at certain times is due to experience and understanding. She speaks to me.

‘I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.’

‘If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed’