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"Searching, captivating and miraculously honest. Davidson has a voice we want to travel with, and to know."--Lisa Brennan-Jobs, New York Times bestselling author of Small Fry
A spellbinding memoir exploring time and memory, home and belonging, from the internationally bestselling author of Tracks, “an unforgettably powerful book” (Cheryl Strayed).
In 1977, while she was in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea.
A life of almost constant travelling followed-from the Outback to Sydney's underworld; from sixties street life, to the London literary scene; from migrating with nomads in India and Tibet, to marrying an Indian prince. The only territory she avoided was the past. In Unfinished Woman, she ventures into that unknown, unearthing an ache for a lost but barely remembered mother and an unmet desire to feel at home in her freedom.
Adventurous but guarded, fearless yet broken, Davidson asks: how can we live with pain and uncertainty, to find beauty in the strangeness of being? Unfinished Woman is a stunning literary achievement, inviting readers in as a world-famous wandering spirit is, for the first time, laid truly bare.
Published | Dec 05 2023 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 304 |
ISBN | 9781620401620 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | 8 x 6 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
An astonishing, wonderful memoir of an extraordinary life
HENRY MARSH, author of Do No Harm
In a memoir that's as evocative and restless as its author – flitting from Doris Lessing's abode in London to the Indian home of her Rajasthani prince “companion” – Davidson interrogates what family, freedom and home mean when you never truly belong anywhere
GUARDIAN, Books of the Year
A triumph
SATURDAY PAPER
An extraordinary memoir … An enthralling, miraculous story, clear as the brilliant constellations of the night sky
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
The zigzagging life of an adventurer ... A fine and observant descriptive writer
THE TIMES
Lyrical and beautifully textured ... The book's multi-layered structure allows disparate recollections to interrupt the chronological narrative in evocative ways, and its title suggests an unfinished symphony, with music and the act of writing serving as central motifs ... The strength of Unfinished Woman is its honesty about Robyn Davidson's difficult emotional and creative journey, and it is propelled by her unsparing self-awareness and willingness to confront her past'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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