About this Book

In the spirit of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank, The Poet?s Girl brings to life another little-known woman behind a famous man. The novel by award-winning writer Sara Fitzgerald arrives as Hale?s own gift to Eliot scholars?the more than 1,000 letters the poet wrote her over the course of their lifetimes?is opened after a 50-year embargo. The Poet?s Girl tells the story of a woman whose own story will never be fully known: the woman behind one of Eliot?s most treasured poems and a woman whose greatest act of love was to bury her side of their story.