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The Wild Other

Clover Stroud

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE

'Extraordinary and a painful but invigorating read. I've never met anyone who has read it and doesn't rank it as one of their favourite books.' Dolly Alderton

'This story - so fierce and brave and visceral and raw - will stay with me forever. Clover Stroud is a force of nature and a woman who is fearless in the face of life and death. I loved it.' Elizabeth Gilbert author of Eat Pray Love

'There is so much richly evoked life here... beautifully written.' Cathy Rentzenbrink The Times

'This redemptive memoir will steal your heart; it will return it bruised but emboldened.' Mail on Sunday

'I have huge admiration for the spirit of this memoir and its author: full of heart bravery and adventure. A moving gripping read.' Amy Liptrot author of The Outrun

Clover Stroud grew up in rural Wiltshire surrounded by animals and family. When she was just sixteen her adored mother had a horrific riding accident which left her permanently brain-damaged and suddenly Clover was left to fend for herself. She embarked on an extraordinary journey to heal her broken heart courting men and danger through two marriages and five children.

The Wild Other is a grippingly honest account of love sex and travelling to the darkest edges of human experience and back again. Powerful and deeply emotional this is the story of an extraordinary life lived at its fullest.

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  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : MAR 8, 2018
  • Imprint : Hodder Paperbacks
  • Page Extent : 288
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781473630246
  • Price : INR 650
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Clover Stroud

Clover Stroud is a writer and journalist writing for the Daily Mail Sunday Times Daily Telegraph and Conde Nast Traveller among others. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and five children.

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