Eat, Pray, Love

One Woman's Search for Everything

By Elizabeth Gilbert

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Average Rating: (See all 12 reviews) Format: Paperback, 352 pages, New edition Edition Published In: United Kingdom, 05 March 2007 Quantity Available: 3720 Ships within 7-9 days 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. Reviews 'It's what I'm giving all my girl friends' Julia Roberts 'Every woman should read it' Elle Macpherson 'I adore it' Sophie Dahl 'I loved it I could understand her wanting to write the book and her desire to heal' Meg Ryan About the Author Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the Pen/Hemmingway Award), a novel, Stern Men and a book of non fiction, The Last American Man (nominated for the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book for 2002). She is a writer-at-large for American GQ where she has received two National Magazine Award nominations for feature writing. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in Philadelphia. Prizes The New York Times' bestseller - No 1 in the New York Times paperback non-fiction bestseller list; No 1 in Los Angeles, Boston and on Booksense; No 3 in San Francisco and Denver; No 7 in Washington Over half a million copies are now in print in the USA A combination of Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, Driving over Lemons and The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Also for fans of Allison Pearson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 0747585660 EAN: 9780747585664 Dimensions: 19.0 x 12.0 centimeters

Oh, how wonderful! I laughed out loud, cried, and nodded my head over and over throughout this story of a woman's pilgrimage to find herself. She writes so well. This is a great read for anyone who loves to travel, loves to eat, wants to know God, or is having a crisis of anykind in their lives. I didn't want it to end! Great stuff.

A riviting read, story of a woman who after a very nasty divorce has to find a way to repair herself, first to eat and on to italy for a few months to indulge the senses and revive both her body and spirit, then to india to pray and meditate and repair her physical self, now she is ready to love and love through every pore of her being an emotional read that will have you laughing, crying and sympathsing all at once.

A great starting point if you're looking for some inspiration in your own life. One woman's view on pleasure, passion and spirituality and you'll keep thinking about it long after you've finished reading.
But don't worry, if you're just after a great read you won't be disappointed. Funny, moving and easy to relate to.

This is the very first non-fiction book that I have kept reading all the way through. It surprised and delighted me, and, though this sounds very naff, changed the way I think.

I absolutely adored this book. It evoked a real passion in me to learn meditaion and 'take the slow road' in life. Elizabeth Gilbert has written a fantastic account of her year after a terrible divorce. She touches on things that are important to her and really engages the reader in her world. I couldnt put this book down and was sad when it ended. I loved the Italy part and the time she spent in India but the best part was Bali. She met an extrordinary group of people in her year abroad and had some fantastic experiences as well as a major personal growth. Well worth the money for this book!!

Loving this book - I still have a few pages to go. Fantastic evocative descriptions of eating in italy were making me hungry all the time. The author's real descriptive passages about trying to meditate in India were interesting and have me get back in touch more with my yoga etc. And of course I have always had a fab time in bali - Ubud being my favourite location (three trips there) - brought back some great memories and thinking about Ubud for next year's trip.

MY GOSH!! This book is fantastic I love it can't put it down. Great Read.

Absolutely loved this book! Couldn't put it down once I got into it.

Interesting read - inspired me to think about my life and has encouraged me to get back to yoga and meditation.
A lot of it was over the top though, also rather unbelievable in parts.

This is one woman's account of rebuilding herself after a messy divorce. She chose to do this by spending a year evenly divided between Italy, India and Indonesia. I loved the account of her time in Rome. I'm in a similar situation and I could readily relate to the fellings she expressed. I ploughed through the time she spent in an Ashram in India. This part of the book didn't have the same voice as the first. The final section was set in Bali, and although the storyline moved along better than India, it never reached the level of Rome again. I'd pass my copy on to a friend to read but I wouldn't recommend them to buy it themselves.