Cheryl Strayed is the author of #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 and has since being adapted to film starring Reese Witherspoon.
Cheryl told The Last Word in the past year, that at twenty-six,she had lost everything.
In the wake of her mother’s rapid death from cancer, her family grew apart and her marriage soon crumbled. With seemingly 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.
It is a brutal memoir of survival, grief and redemption: a searing portrayal of life at its lowest ebb and at its highest tide.
Wild opens in Irish screens tomorrow, to hear Cheryl’s interview with The Last Word listen back here:
