Paperback edition of Cheryl Strayed's memoir which was selected as the first book in Oprah's Bookclub 2.0, and has already been an enormous success in America where it spent 17 weeks on the "New York Times" list. At 26, Cheryl thought she had lost everything when her mother died from cancer, her family disbanded, and her marriage crumbled. This is her life-affirming story of her decision to walk the eleven-hundred miles of the West Coast of America. 'Funny and fierce' "Independent On Sunday"