A _GUARDIAN _BEST BOOK OF AUTUMN 2025 AN OPRAH WINFREY BOOK CLUB PICK 'NO ONE WHO READS THIS BOOK WILL EVER FORGET IT' Meg Mason 'AN ABSOLUTE MASTERCLASS AND TRUTH-BOMB … I THINK MANY PEOPLE WILL BE SHAKEN AWAKE BY THIS BOOK' Emma Gannon In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (_Eat Pray Love_) and creatively (_Big Magic_) shows how to break free. In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: the two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe. What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening? _All the Way to the River_ is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love – or to any other passion, substance or craving – and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.