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How could I talk about Island books and not mention this classic? To be perfectly honest, there are three other books that deserve to be on this list also, but then, just as I was narrowing my list, I thought of Bali – the toothless old man, the great learning that all is well, you just need to sit and smile…
This is a book that most women my age devoured when it first hit the shelves and yet, it remains (maybe in some part thanks to the movie) still present in my mind when I think of books I’ve enjoyed. Gilbert brings us on an emotional safari, taking in not just Bali, Italy and India, but in the company of a plucky narrator who despite being in search of herself, is very much a heroine for our age. The prose is beautiful, the dialogue smart and the settings…. Even if you never leave your armchair, this is a book to wash away those cares and worries between two delicious covers.
Guest Editor Faith Hogan
When Elizabeth Gilbert comes to a realisation that her mariage is over and her life has strayed from the one she wants, she sets off across the world to get back the happiness she lost. Managing to be both touching and hilariously funny in parts, Eat, Pray, Love is an inspiring personal journey and an enlightening travelogue.
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Eat Pray Love Synopsis
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 realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So begins her quest. In Rome, she indulges herself and gains nearly two stone. In India, she finds enlightenment through scrubbing temple floors. Finally, in Bali, a toothless medicine man reveals a new path to peace, leaving her ready to love again. A worldwide phenomenon on first publication, Eat Pray Love now celebrates ten years of capturing the hearts and minds of women across the globe.
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Elizabeth Gilbert Press Reviews
Eat Pray Love has been passed from woman to woman like the secret of life Sunday Times
A defining work of memoir Sunday Telegraph
Everyone who reads it has a new best friend The Times
If you read one book, this should be it The Sun
Life changing Daily Express
About Elizabeth Gilbert
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 currently lives in Philadelphia.
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