1. Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
This novel begins with Elizabeth Gilbert sobbing on her bathroom floor in the middle of the night. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, she owns a house, she's trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of pleasure, devotion and balance. In other words, she's off to search for her soul.
First, she travels to Rome, then to an ashram in India and finally to Bali, where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace. Once she learns to simply sit still and smile, happiness begins to creep up on her.
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