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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9780747585664Number of pages: 384Weight: 272 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American novelist,short story writer and journalist,best known for her 2006 travel memoir Eat,Pray,Love and its follow up about the institution of marriage,Committed. Her latest book is the 1940s set novel City of Girls.
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