{"product_id":"wayward-9781474621939","title":"Wayward","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe life story of the young musician who gave up everything and everybody to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog and partner, in a journey that would lead to the writing and recording of her 1970 album \u003ci\u003eJust Another Diamond Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a magical and transporting memoir, relating how Bunyan ducked out of the London music scene, instead choosing to make her way - by foot and wagon - to the Outer Hebrides. Her mesmerising viewpoint and lyrical outlook on life will be familiar to anyone who, like me, loves her music, but \u003ci\u003eWayward \u003c\/i\u003eproves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life, on her own idiosyncratic terms -- Maggie O'Farrell\u003cbr\u003eA gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival; a map of how to live outside the boundaries and of striving for an authentic artistic life. A quietly defiant and moving work -- Sinéad Gleeson\u003cbr\u003eVashti Bunyan possesses one of the purest voices English music has ever produced, and now that unique otherness translates to literature. \u003ci\u003eWayward \u003c\/i\u003eis an epic in miniature, a mythical tale with echoes of her ancestor John Bunyan's \u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim's Progress\u003c\/i\u003e, made all the more magical by the fact it \u003ci\u003eactually happened.\u003c\/i\u003e I loved - and lived - every sentence -- Benjamin Myers\u003cbr\u003eA quietly beautiful and gentle read, full of light and kindness. Underneath its easygoing exterior is a proud story about gut instinct and persistence, and I have much affection for what it showed me about choosing a pace of life, and how we might find our place in the world as we move through it -- Jennifer Lucy Allan\u003cbr\u003eThis simply beautiful memoir cast the same spell on me as Vashti Bunyan's music. Her account of a legendary road-trip taken at horse pace through a gone England is hedgerow rich in vivid detail. But this is no nostalgia piece: Bunyan is needle-sharp on the way so many men tried to cut her - and her songs - down to size: essential reading for women in the arts now. I read the last pages through tears, deeply moved by the wilder life she embarked on, step by step, song by song. If you loved Patti Smith's Just Kids then you need to read Wayward next. -- Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for Sleep\u003cbr\u003eBunyan weaves her captivating nomad's tale with a rambler's eye for detail and a dreamer's visionary ambition. Her perpetual search for utopia, and the experiences behind her songs of innocence, are romantic and revelatory -- Rob Young\u003cbr\u003eDefiant and surprisingly unromantic, painting her cross-country journey in shades of muddy green, this is a fascinating and brave memoir -- Bob Stanley\u003cbr\u003eLike the music she makes, Vashti Bunyan's writing in this memoir of an unusual musical life is ethereal and dream-like, skipping from one thought to the next, lingering long enough to leave a clear impression but not to overburden the reader's experience . . . a story of finding meaning in the right location, with beautiful music as a backdrop * Record Collector *\u003cbr\u003eExtraordinary * Mojo *","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885797847383,"sku":"9781474621939","price":23.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474621939.jpg?v=1722537734","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wayward-9781474621939","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}