Rich with humour, insight, compassion - and absolute honesty - Tiny Beautiful Things is a balm for everything life throws our way, administered by the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir, Wild Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you, you lose a family member, you can't pay the bills. But it can be pretty great, too: you've had the hottest sex of your life, you get that plum job, you muster the courage to write your novel. Everyday across the world, people go through the full and glorious gamut of life - but sometimes, a little advice is needed. For several years, thousands turned to Cheryl Strayed, a then-anonymous internet Agony Aunt. But unlike most Agony Aunts, this one's advice was spun from genuine compassion and informed by a wealth of personal experience - experience that was sometimes tragic and sometimes tender, often hilarious and often heartbreaking. Having successfully battled her own demons while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed sat down to answer the letters of the frightened, the anxious, the confused; and with each gem-like correspondence - of which the best are collected in this volume - she proved to be the perfect guide for those who had got a little lost in life.

Tiny Beautiful Things

Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. '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, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and 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 and 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 and Oregon, and into Washington state - and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and 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. Strayed's account captures the agonies - both mental and physical - of her incredible journey; how it maddened and terrified her, and how, ultimately, it healed her. Wild is a brutal memoir of survival, grief and redemption: a searing portrayal of life at its lowest ebb and at its highest tide.

Wild

Bold, brave and beautiful, Brave Enough is a gem-like collection of thoughts and aphorisms from Cheryl Strayed, the inspirational author of the bestselling Wild. 'Everyone should have at least two copies of Brave Enough: one to keep near the bath, and one to give out, generously, to whoever needs the help.' -- The Pool Across the world, millions of people have found life and depth in the words of Cheryl Strayed. Whether it has been in her bestselling memoir Wild or in her collection of advice on love and life, Tiny Beautiful Things, she has been a companion to those who feel alone, a balm to those who hurt, a co-conspirator to those who laugh, and a steel-toecapped boot to those who need tough love. In this courageous and glittering collection of quotes and thoughts, Cheryl Strayed shows that no matter how much life might get you down, words can have the power to pick you back up.

Brave Enough

A searing and luminous novel of a family's grief after unexpected loss, from the author of the huge bestseller Wild. "Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, Modern Pioneers, and the advice she strives to live by every day. She has fled a bad marriage and rebuilt a life with her children, Claire and Joshua, and their caring stepfather, Bruce. Their love for each other binds them as a family through the daily struggles of making ends meet. But when they received unexpected news that Teresa, only 38, is dying of cancer, their lives all begin to unravel and drift apart. Strayed's intimate portraits of these fully human characters in a time of crisis show the varying truths of grief, forgiveness, and the beautiful terrors of learning how to keep living.

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Cheryl Strayed var 22 år, da hun mistede alt. Hendes mor døde af kræft, hendes ægteskab gik i opløsning, hun droppede ud af college, begyndte at tage heroin ... Fire år senere havde hun nået bunden og tog så den mest impulsive beslutning i sit liv: Helt alene begav hun sig ud på ekstremt krævende vandrerute, Pacific Crest Trail, der strækker sig i et 4000 km langt bælte fra Californien til Canada. Først da den unge kvinde står i vildmarken, med en rygsæk der er så tung at hun ikke kan løfte den, går det op for hende hvad hun har indladt sig på. Hun er for stolt til at opgive, så hun trodser sin angst – og begynder at gå! Her i den rå natur med klapperslanger, bjørne, pumaer bliver hun konfronteret med sig selv på godt og ondt. Mens hun tilbagelægger kilometer efter kilometer, lader hun i sit indre sit eget splintrede liv passere revu. Langsomt finder hun tilbage til den person hun engang var, og hendes historie samler sig i et nyt og sandere billede. WILD er skrevet med spændingsromanens drive. Man overgiver sig fuldstændig til den gribende historie om en rejse der først bringer en ung kvinde til vanviddets rand, så gør hende stærkere og til sidst gør hende hel. WILD er en NEW YORK TIMES bestseller og udvalgt til Ophrah Winfreys bogklub. ANMELDERNE SKREV "Den er et dybt personligt projekt, der - genfortalt som det er, med indsigt, klogskab, humor og godt sprog - vedkommer alverden (...) For læseren er det først og fremmest rejsen og refleksionerne undervejs, der gør »Wild« til noget særligt: velskrevet, dramatisk og tankevækkende erindringslitteratur, eller sagt på en anden måde: begavet hverdagsfilosofi krydret med litterære henvisninger, indsigt og perspektiv." - 4 stjerner, Berlingske "På vej henover fortvivlelsens tinder og dale til målet synes alt i livet at få et mere konkret udtryk, og de nærværende problemer som myg, sult og tabte vandrestøvler bliver efterhånden en katalysator for at kunne forholde sig til de mere æteriske problemer i livet. Som læsere oplever vi det naturligt kædet sammen med hendes opklarende flashback til årene, hvori hun tabte sig selv. Man bliver i den grad taget med, så man netop forstår denne sammenhæng mellem det små og det store." - Jyllands-Posten

WILD - en fortælling om at fare vild og finde sig selv igen

Een krachtig memoir dat recht uit het hart komt: het verhaal van een jonge vrouw die op het dieptepunt van haar leven een 1.700 kilometer lange solo-hike maakt. De tocht is slopend, zowel emotioneel als fysiek, maar maakt haar uiteindelijk sterker dan ooit. Op haar zesentwintigste neemt Cheryl Strayed haar meest impulsieve beslissing ooit: ze begint aan een voettocht van 1.700 kilometer langs de Pacific Crest Trail in het westen van Amerika. Helemaal alleen, zonder ervaring en met een veel te zware rugzak. Drie maanden lang doorstaat ze intense hitte en meters sneeuw, wordt ze geconfronteerd met beren en ratelslangen en ervaart ze de schoonheid, maar ook de verschrikkelijke eenzaamheid van de tocht die haar leven voorgoed zou veranderen. Het boek is verfilmd met Reese Witherspoon in de hoofdrol.

Wild. Over jezelf verliezen, terugvinden en 1700 kilometer hiken

Het leven kan hard zijn: je wordt bedrogen door je geliefde, je verliest een vriend of familielid of je zit diep in de schulden. Maar het kan ook fantastisch zijn: je vindt de liefde van je leven, hebt de kracht om van baan te switchen of raapt eindelijk de moed bij elkaar om je eerste roman te schrijven. Tienduizenden mensen met grote en kleine problemen vroegen bestsellerauteur Cheryl Strayed om raad. En ze werden geholpen. Haar adviezen zijn humoristisch, empathisch, wijs en onvoorwaardelijk eerlijk.

Schitterende kleine dingen

22-vuotiaan Cherylin äiti kuolee, avioliitto hajoaa ja hän menettää kaiken. Silloin Cheryl tekee elämänsä impulsiivisimman päätöksen. Hän päättää kävellä Meksikon rajalta Kanadan rajalle ulottuvaa vaellusreittiä sadan päivän ajan seuranaan vain hirviömäisiin mittoihin paisunut rinkkansa. Kuvitelmat sielukkaasta itsensä etsimisestä ja meditatiivisen eteerisistä iltahetkistä vaihtuvat lihaskipuun, hiertymiin ja kovaan fyysiseen väsymykseen. Hän ei silti jää rypemään itsesääliin edes hukattuaan kenkänsä vaan suuntaa päättäväisesti eteenpäin, askel askeleelta.

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