Book description
Over 10 million copies sold worldwide.
It's 3 a. m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom
floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're
trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce
and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered
and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three
things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she
travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed
identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India,
where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of
the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless
medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace:
simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
 A witty, honest account of loss and new beginnings, this will be
enjoyed by anyone who's realised "having it all" isn't all
it's cracked up to be'
Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short
story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the Pen/Hemmingway
Award), a novel, Stern Men and a book of non fiction, The
Last American Man (nominated for the National Book Award and a
New York Times Notable Book for 2002). She is a
writer-at-large for American GQ where she has received two
National Magazine Award nominations for feature writing. Elizabeth
Gilbert lives in Philadelphia.
