Description
Magical and transporting Wayward proves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life on her own idiosyncratic terms
Maggie OFarrell
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
Sinad Gleeson
An epic in miniature I loved and lived every sentence
Benjamin Myers
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 1970s 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 postwar London to a fledgling career in midsixties 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
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