An Evening with Elizabeth Gilbert: All The Way To The River

An Evening with Elizabeth Gilbert: All The Way To The River

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Monday, March 2, 2026 - 19:30 to 21:30
Life
Wellbeing
Inspiring
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LIVE at the Barbican
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With more than 25 million books in print worldwide, Gilbert is one of the most beloved literary voices of a generation. Since her blockbuster memoir Eat Pray Love, she has written many bestsellers—including the novel City of Girls and her creativity manifesto Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear which each have sold over a million copies. Also revered for wildly popular TED Talk on creativity (over 21 million views), Gilbert has become a leader for countless others in the fields of business, technology and the arts looking for creative inspiration.

Gilbert’s newest book—her first nonfiction in a decade—is the highly anticipated, All the Way to the River.

What if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening? All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love—or to any other passion, substance, or craving – and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.
 

Elizabeth says: "I wrote this book for myself – and for people who are seekers, people who are hungry, people who are restless, people who feel trapped, people who, perhaps, since earliest childhood have felt that there absolutely has to be a higher meaning to life than what we have been shown."

Elizabeth joins us at the Barbican for a UK Exclusive event. Signed copies of the new book will be available for purchase.

100 VIP tickets available for a meet and greet with Elizabeth before the show 

About the speaker, Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels City of Girls, The Signature of All Things, and Stern Men; the story collection Pilgrims; and the nonfiction books Big Magic, Eat Pray Love, Committed, and The Last American Man. A finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.

In her critically acclaimed novels and immensely popular works of nonfiction, Elizabeth Gilbert expands our understanding of creativity, spirituality, and love. Whatever her subject—her own transformative experiences, the institution of marriage, or 1940’s showgirls—Gilbert writes with “a mix of intelligence, wit, and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible” (The New York Times Book Review). The woman Oprah Winfrey called a “rock star author” is among her generation’s most beloved and inspiring voices, with her books selling more than 25 million copies worldwide, she has an avid international readership and devoted following.

Gilbert’s memoir, Eat Pray Love, exploded onto the scene in 2006. The #1 New York Times bestseller famously chronicled the year Gilbert spent traveling the world after a shattering divorce. Translated into more than 30 languages, it was adapted into a 2010 film starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. Following Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert wrote Committed: A Love Story, a meditation on marriage as a sociohistorical institution.

In fall 2025, Gilbert returns with a highly anticipated memoir, All the Way to the River, which follows her relationship with her late partner Rayya Elias.

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