Eat Pray Love
One Woman's Search for Everything
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Pub Date 5 Mar 2007 | Archive Date 31 Aug 2025
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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.
Advance Praise
'Eat, Pray, Love has been passed from woman to woman like the secret of life' - Sunday Times
'A defining work of memoir' - Sunday Telegraph
'Engaging, intelligent, and highly entertaining' - Time
'Gilbert's prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible' - The New York Times Book Review
'Life changing' - Daily Express
'A meditation on love in its many forms - love of food, language, humanity, God, and most meaningful for Gilbert, love of self' - Los Angeles Times
'If you read one book, this should be it' - Sun
'Everyone who reads it has a new best friend' - The Times
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780747585664 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 384 |
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Featured Reviews
Pao S, Bookseller
A classic of the memoir genre - Liz Gilbert never disappoints.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this reissue!
Book Trade Professional 1641294
This is such a hopeful book about reclaiming a part of yourself when it feels like everything is falling apart. It was so well written and kept me swept up in the story from the beginning until the end.
Jennifer K, Reviewer
Going into Eat Pray Love, I only knew the movie, so I was curious to see how the memoir compared. The book definitely offers a deeper, more introspective look at Elizabeth Gilbert’s emotional and spiritual transformation after divorce. Her voice is candid, often witty, and deeply personal, which made parts of her journey feel relatable, even if others felt overly indulgent.
The structure (Italy for pleasure, India for devotion, and Bali for balance) makes for an engaging mix of travel writing and self-discovery. Some sections dragged for me (especially in India), and her reflections occasionally veer into self-absorption, but there’s sincerity in her search that I appreciated.
If you’re in the mood for a soul-searching travel memoir with vivid settings and emotional vulnerability, this is a worthwhile read, especially if, like me, your only reference was Julia Roberts in a piazza.
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