One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry brave sad self-knowing redemptive raw compelling & brilliantly written & I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people men & women for a very long time.' Nick Hornby At twenty-six Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer her family disbanded & her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America
- from the Mojave Desert through California & Oregon & into Washington state
- & to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking & the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise
- a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet.