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<p><b>'Refreshing and funny and unlike anything else. I feel as if I've been waiting for this book for a long time' </b><br>Daisy Johnson, Booker Prize shortlisted author of <i>Everything Under</i><br><br>Nineteen-year-old Erin has never been this far from home. From the Midlands to Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, on across the entire breadth of the American continent ... as Erin's one-woman odyssey leads her towards a lonely cabin in the wilds of Alaska, she charts the changing landscapes of her own mind - and reimagines not just a woman's place in society, but humanity's place on planet Earth.<br><br>Filled with a sense of hope and wonder, <i>The Word for Woman is Wilderness</i> is a funny, frank and tender account of a young woman in uncharted territory.<br><br><b>'A thinking woman's adventure story ... beautiful, thoughtful, and often humorous' </b>Lucy Scholes, <i>The National</i></p>