Strayed’s approach was unusual in that she responded to letters using her personal experience of sexual abuse, infidelity, loss and heartbreak to help readers who found themselves in a quandary to become unstuck. In 2010, while writing Wild, Strayed joined the literary collective The Rumpus, anonymously writing the ‘Dear Sugar’ advice column. Prior to Wild, Strayed won the Pushcart Prize for her essay ‘Munro Country’, and wrote the critically acclaimed novel Torch. It’s a riveting tale of her experiences hiking a gruelling section of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), a wilderness path that runs across nine mountain ranges extending from Mexico through California, Oregon and Washington to Canada. Strayed shot to global fame in 2012 with Wild, described by the New York Times as “a profound meditation on the nature of grief and survival”. Her excitement about the movie is palpable. She joins me after a breakfast script meeting with Nick Hornby, who is adapting her global bestseller Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found for the big screen. I meet Cheryl Strayed in the offices of her British publisher in Russell Square.
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