All the Way to the River

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Bloomsbury presents All the Way to the River, written and read by Elizabeth Gilbert.

In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: the two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.

What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?

All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love – or to any other passion, substance or craving – and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.

Critics 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
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