All the Way to the River

Eat Pray Love encouraged us to live authentically. Big Magic taught us how to trust our creative instincts. All the Way to the River shows us how creativity can remake a life.

Elizabeth Gilbert's journey has inspired millions. Let it inspire you.

In her most intimate memoir yet, Gilbert shows how the love that shatters you can also awaken you - and lead you to the most peaceful, creative and spiritually rich season of life yet.

'With Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert started a movement ... this new memoir is just as powerful. She bares her soul, sharing her truth so openly, she offers readers the courage to face their own' Oprah Winfrey

Review

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 Winfrey

Gilbert'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 Mason

An 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 Gannon

Elizabeth 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

About the Author

Elizabeth Gilbert is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and several other internationally 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.