Broken threadsA SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal ? One can't help but be moved by this story of upheaval and transformation' SADIQ KHAN

From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin

Combining interviews with extensive archival research

teasing out the details of connection and affection between two women who seem to be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other

followed by an easy-to-navigate description of the walk itself

Liz Fenwick is a gifted storyteller' Sarah Morgan

through to rehab

let alone one forty years old

of Prague Spring and Cold War winter

and how family and society responded to this emerging class of working women

then as now Paris had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre

or the Native American women displaced by the mass migration of the 'whites' to their lands

Juliet's cousin