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Wayward

Just Another Life to Live

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Wayward

By: Vashti Bunyan
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In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog, guitar and her then partner.

They made the long journey up to the Outer Hebrides in an odyssey of discovery and heartbreak, full of the joy of freedom and the trudge of everyday reality, sleeping in the woods, fighting freezing winters and homelessness.

Along the way, Vashti wrote the songs that would lead to the recording of her 1970's album Just Another Diamond Day, the lilting lyrics and guitar conveying innocent wonder at the world around her, whilst disguising a deeper turmoil under the surface.

From an unconventional childhood in post-war London, to a fledgling career in mid-sixties pop - recording a single written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - to the despair and failure to make any headway with her own songs, she rejected the music world altogether and left it all behind. After retreating to a musical wilderness for thirty years, the rediscovery of her recordings in 2000 brought Vashti a second chance to write, record and perform once more.

One of the great hippie myths of the 1960s, Wayward, Just Another Life to Live, rewrites the narrative of a barefoot girl on the road to describe a life lived at full tilt from the first, revealing what it means to change course and her emotional struggle, learning to take back control of her own life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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This is a magical and transporting memoir, relating how Bunyan ducked out of the London music scene, instead choosing to make her way - by foot and wagon - to the Outer Hebrides. Her mesmerising viewpoint and lyrical outlook on life will be familiar to anyone who, like me, loves her music, but Wayward proves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life, on her own idiosyncratic terms (Maggie O'Farrell)
A gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival; a map of how to live outside the boundaries and of striving for an authentic artistic life. A quietly defiant and moving work (Sinéad Gleeson)
Vashti Bunyan possesses one of the purest voices English music has ever produced, and now that unique otherness translates to literature. Wayward is an epic in miniature, a mythical tale with echoes of her ancestor John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, made all the more magical by the fact it actually happened. I loved - and lived - every sentence (Benjamin Myers)
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Vashti recounts her life’s journey in her soft, gentle voice that personified her beautiful music. Wonderful listening. Thank you.

Touching Storytelling of an Extraordinary Life

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What a beautiful story and memoir. Wonderful. Also in case you don’t know her music.

Wonderful memoir.

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As a fan of Vashti Bunyan’s music, I was thrilled to find her book Wayward, and even more so when I found her audiobook reading! Full of poetic mirth, dark humour and stories of family hard-times blended with creative joy, Vashti Bunyan paints us a vivid and beautiful picture of her strong determination to live her dream, and all that it costs, and all that it means. A very special listen!

A soothing story of a creative life well lived!

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I have been interested in the life of Vashti Bunyan for many years and enjoyed her music for just as long. I was also very interested to know of what happened to her before, during and after her pilgrimage and this story answered all my questions. Very emotional, highly interesting and full of ups, downs, joys and disappointments of someone following their dreams but in the end, coming to terms with understanding who they are. The delivery by the author however is not great and I struggled to hear what she was saying much of the time, a problem solved by constant rewinds due to her almost at times whispering dialogue. I was looking to download the enclosed .pdf version as a book but sadly this contains only a very few number of pages.

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Lovely genuine unpretentious recanting of a life well led - review from a girl whose mother may well have leant into the little that was released to public back then.

Glad you found the diamond

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