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At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State – and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than 'an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise'. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humour, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened and ultimately healed her.

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'I love this book. I want to shout it from the mountaintop.' -- Oprah Winfrey 'Angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written ... It is destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' -- Nick Hornby 'Extraordinary ... Truly wild: dirty, beautiful, serene.' -- The Sunday Telegraph 'A deeply honest memoir about mother and daughter, solitude and courage, and regaining footing, one step at a time.' -- Vogue

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"Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild, the New York Times bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things and the novel Torch. Wild was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. Strayed's award-winning writing has appeared in The Best American Essays, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, The Missouri Review, The Sun, Tin House, The Rumpus – where she wrote the popular ""Dear Sugar"" advice column – and elsewhere. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages around the world. The movie adaptation of Wild will be released by Fox Searchlight in December 2014. The film is directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and stars Reese Witherspoon, with a screenplay by Nick Hornby. Strayed holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and their two children. Laurel Lefkow is one of the top US voices in the UK. She is a regular on BBC Radio 4 in radio plays, narrating the Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime. She has won awards for her audiobooks including Best Female Narrator of the Year. Laurel has voiced numerous computer games including main roles in Alien vs Predator, and is the voice of Ripley in Audible's Original Drama Alien: Sea of Sorrows. Recent film and television credits include Black Mirror, The Diplomat, Absentia and the films Fair Play and Misbehaviour. Laurel lives in London with her two daughters."

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