<p>''Magical and transporting . . . <i>Wayward </i>proves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life, on her own idiosyncratic terms''<br><b>Maggie O''Farrell</b><br><br>''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'' <br><b>Sin¿ Gleeson</b><br><br>''An epic in miniature . . . I loved - and lived - every sentence<b>'' </b><br><b>Benjamin Myers</b><br><b><br>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.</b><br><br> 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.<br><br> Along the way, Vashti wrote the songs that would lead to the recording of her 1970''s album Just Another Diamond