Best known for The Color Purple, Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winner whose books have sold millions of copies in the UK alone. This collection of essays gives unique insight into her life and her passions 'As a fighter against social injustice Walker is inspirational; as a black woman struggling with divorce, motherhood and catboxes, she is engaging and empathetic' Daily Telegraph 'Alice Walker is an inspired preacher whose rhetoric of hope defies the harshness of reality...her delight in life, her exuberant love of anecdote and friendship shine through...she is uniquely herself, as a writer of moving and transforming stories' Observer 'She has a way with words, an ear for cadences and - thank goodness - a sense of humour' Miranda France, Scotsman