Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

Melissa Gilbert, known for her role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on Little House on the Prairie, shares her journey from Hollywood to a rustic house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic in her new memoir. She falls in love with nature and finds a new life in the woods, trading Botox for DIY projects and raising chickens.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert, returns with a new hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she was always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life-changing.

When her husband introduces her to the wilds of rural Michigan, Melissa begins to fall back in love with nature. And when work takes them to New York, they find a rustic cottage in the Catskill Mountains to call home. But "rustic" is a generous description for the state of the house, requiring a lot of blood, sweat, and tears for the newlyweds to make habitable.

When the pandemic descends on the world, it further nudges Melissa out of the spotlight and into the woods. She trades Botox treatments for DIY projects, power lunching for gardening and raising chickens, and soon her life is rediscovered anew in her own little house in the Catskills.

Weight: 440g
Dimension: 236 x 162 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781982177188