'An astonishing, wonderful memoir of an extraordinary life' HENRY MARSH, author of Do No HarmAn unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller Tracks: the story of a mother and daughter, of love, loss and the pursuit of freedomIn 1977, twenty-seven-year-old 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 deserts of Australia, to Sydney's underworld; from Sixties street life, to the London literary scene; from migrating with nomads in Tibet, to 'marrying' an Indian prince, Davidson's quest was motivated by an unquenchable curiosity about other ways of seeing and understanding the world.Davidson threw bombs over her shoulder and seeds into her future on the assumption that something would be growing when she got there. The only terrain she had no interest in exploring was the past.In Unfinished Woman Davidson turns at last to explore that long avoided country. Through this brave and revealing memoir, she delves into her childhood and youth to uncover the forces that set her on her path, and confront the cataclysm of her early loss.Unfinished Woman is an unforgettable investigation of time and memory, and a powerful interrogation of how we can live with and find beauty in the uncertainty and strangeness of being.

Beautifully written, Unfinished Woman is a timely meditation on motherhood, womanhood, sacrifice and freedom sure to captivate women of all generations: set to become a genre-defining classic of memoir in the vein of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (TCM: 160,000), On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming (TCM: 66,000) and Deborah Levy's Living Autobiography series (TCM: 60,000)