Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

"Vivid and vivacious ... Davidson is as natural a writer as she is an adventurer."--The New Yorker, on Tracks

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. What sets a young woman on such a solitary path, such an extreme quest?

The ground beneath Davidson's feet would stretch from the desert to the streets of Australia and beyond: to India, where she migrated with nomads, "married" a prince and found family; to London, where she taken with love, confronted by ambition, touched by friendship, and devastated by grief. 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: in a world that falls apart, who and what do we hold onto? Unfinished Woman is a stunning literary achievement, inviting readers in as a world-famous wandering spirit is, for the first time, laid truly bare.