Some of the best books by women for International Women's Day
Acquaint yourself with these female writers, and you'll make a friend for life in their books
"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor"
Mandatory reading for those baffling, pressurised periods of indecision in your early twenties, and short enough and breathless enough to race through in a day, Sylvia Plath's only novel strikes a chord for all who read it.
