Beejay Silcox

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505 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Bookshelf · Tony Birch & Beejay Silcox review: Inga Simpson/Asako Yuzuki/Helen Bain · 24 Apr 2026 podcast

It's called A Hook, but it's not the last one she wrote.

I'm curious that it's a blog that brings it together because blogs were hip and happening for a while, but now we've sort of moved on from it.

I mean, does that date the book?

And I guess if you're stepping into that world and you're then obsessed with this other person's life and world, how does it shift?

I mean, there's the potential for obsession and voyeurism and what it means to step into somebody else's life.

And so what does this mean for the feel of the book?

I mean, does it shift as it goes along?

It sounds as though there's potential for this to become quite dark as a sort of, what, psychological thriller?

Oh, a bit of cruel reading for our bookshelf listeners there, BJ.

And the book is called Hooked.

It's translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton and it's published by Fourth Estate.

Now, here on the bookshelf, let's maybe stay with the question of obsession and women being obsessed with other women because I want to tell you, BJ, about a book that's set in the 1960s and it sort of swirls around a contemporary icon, I guess, and it's a novel woven around the last year or so in the life of the poet BJ.

Sylvia Plath, who died by suicide in 1963.

Now, before we get to that novel, are you or have you ever been a Plath devotee?

Yes, I am as well.

I mean, I know there are so many people who are obsessed with Sylvia Plath's life and her poetry and her marriage to the poet Ted Hughes as well.

And there have been so many books and essays and so on written about all of that.

But this new book, it's by a

And one of the things that's interesting about it is that it more swirls around Sylvia Plath than focusing on her.

She is sort of a character in this novel, but what it does is it, well, I think she's taken an idea like Dickinson line, tell all the truth, but tell it slant.

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