Eat Pray Love

Elizabeth Gilbert is thirty-four years old, recently divorced, and in the grip of a depression so complete that she spends the night lying on her bathroom floor, crying. What follows over the next year — four months in Italy eating pasta and learning the language, three months in India at an ashram practising meditation, three months in Bali with a medicine man and a toothless healer — is the journey that became one of the bestselling memoirs of the twenty-first century.

Eat Pray Love is not the book its reputation suggests — it is more complicated, more self-aware, and more genuinely searching than the ‘self-help memoir’ category implies. Gilbert’s account of her year is honest about its contradictions: the privilege it required, the genuine spiritual work it involved, and the specific quality of pleasure and presence she discovered in each of the three countries.

Essential for anyone on a genuine search — and the ideal companion for a year of deliberate transformation. Published by Bloomsbury.