Elizabeth Gilbert is the number one bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 46 languages, and several other international bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction. Her story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her follow-up memoir to Eat Pray Love, Committed, became an instant number one New York Times bestseller. She has published two novels, Stern Men and The Signature of All Things, which was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. She lives in New Jersey. www.elizabethgilbert.com / @GilbertLiz

OVER 15 MILLIONS COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

'Eat, Pray, Love has been passed from woman to woman like the secret of life' Sunday Times

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.

If Eat Pray Love has become a bible for women wanting to initiate change in their lives, then Gilbert is their patron saint

A defining work of memoir

Everyone who reads it has a new best friend

If you read one book, this should be it

Life changing

Gilbert's prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible

An engaging, intelligent, and highly entertaining memoir

A meditation on love in its many forms - love of food, language, humanity, God, and most meaningful for Gilbert, love of self

A funny, tender, utterly beguiling story about a woman's search for happiness