Book Review Committed 
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Gilbert is a woman with a story to tell. A story about love and marriage and not liking marriage and how other people like marriage and other people don’t.
In her previous book - Eat, Pray, Love - post-messy divorce Gilbert found love with Felipe. At the beginning of Committed she has been informed that they must marry in order to live legally in America together.
Unfortunately most of Committed is taken up with Gilbert’s convoluted explanations for writing this second book and almost compulsive referencing of Eat, Pray, Love. These prevarications not only undermine the only interesting thing about Committed (the writer’s research into the historical and social significance of marriage) but they also highlight the fact that Gilbert doesn’t actually have a story to tell.
Eat, Pray, Love may have “been passed from woman to woman like the secret of life”, but its’ follow up is just two people calling lawyers, filling in forms and coming to terms with the fact that, to live in America, this boring American woman must marry her boring Brazilian boyfriend.
And they all lived Happily Ever After.
pb, Bloomsbury, £12.99
Posted on Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Beulah Devaney
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