All the Way to the River

With Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert started a movement … This new memoir is just as powerful – raw, unflinching and deeply healing. She bares her soul, sharing her truth so openly, she offers readers the courage to face their own – Oprah WinfreyGilbert’s supernatural ability to find the upside is her unique power as a writer … [Gilbert] is a good advert for what to do when you end up on the floor: take it as a sign to look inward * Observer *Heart-breaking, sometimes harrowing, but with profound honesty, Elizabeth Gilbert asks us to hope. No one who reads this book will ever forget it – Meg MasonAn absolute masterclass and truth-bomb of a memoir, packed with rawness, courage and poetry. I feel changed by it. The deepest truest manifesto I’ve ever read on recovery, addiction, facing yourself and what it means to belong. I think many people will be shaken awake by this book – Emma GannonElizabeth Gilbert has written her rawest memoir yet … The acclaimed author pulls no punches, offering an unvarnished look at love, addiction, and the long road to recovery * Elle *Classic Gilbert: entertaining, insightful, wrenching, self-effacing, self-indulgent and profoundly real. Its strongest scenes, of Gilbert and partner Rayya Elias’s beyond-beautiful and then beyond-ugly interactions, are punch-to-the-gut powerful … She furthers the enduring women’s crusade to split the world open * Washington Post *In gorgeous prose, we see Gilbert come apart and find the strength to put herself back together again … A delicious mashup of narrative that’s by turns harrowing and healing * People *A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling … Gilbert is undoubtedly a force * Boston Globe *A loving tribute to Elias, an unfiltered descent into substance abuse, and an intimate look at Gilbert’s hard fought road to recovery * TIME *What makes this book worthy is the author’s fierce self-reckoning: there’s no easy triumph, just more hard work * Los Angeles Times *Deeply personal … A beautiful portrait of a woman learning to care for herself * Real Simple *Gilbert achieves her signature intimacy through a bluntly confessional tone … and an admirable ability to stare darkness in the face without losing hope. Readers struggling with addiction or seeking a path through heartbreak will find invaluable wisdom in these pages * Publishers Weekly, starred review *Gilbert rips open her life to share all the painful moments and grief … in a story of despair and courage that … must have been unimaginable to write … A brave story with an ultimately hopeful outcome. Anyone who has faced addiction – or loved someone who has – will recognize and be moved by Gilbert’s journey * Booklist, starred review *The author of the world’s most famous memoir returns to the form to tell the story of a great love … A worthy addition to the literature of addiction and recovery, charming and harrowing by turns * Kirkus *Like the romantic crash and burn Gilbert describes, a wild ride of a book. I devoured it in one sitting … If you’re a fan of addiction memoirs that are prepared to get down in the mucky darkness of life, it’s an instant classic * Standard *

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of many internationally bestselling books, most recently the novel City of Girls. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.