From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
Synopsis
The Number One Global Bestselling Memoir
In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-conceived memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words.
Riley knew she had to fulfil her mother’s wish: to reveal her complex, incandescent and painful memories to the world. And to finally make her mother known.
In this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir, Lisa Marie shares her untold story for the first time.
About being born to an American myth, raised in the wilds of Graceland. About the unconditional love she felt from her father, Elvis. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran towards his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother Priscilla, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, life-long relationship with Danny Keough, and about being married to Michael Jackson. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief.
Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, and composed of both Lisa Marie’s and Riley’s voices, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other – and the last words of the only child of a true legend.
‘Stunningly candid . . . Keough’s portrait of her mother in her final months is especially indelible’ – The Washington Post
'Tragedy and addiction vie for your attention in this jaw-dropping memoir' – The Guardian
Amazon Editors’ Best Books of the Year 2024
People Best Book of the Year 2024
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“The result is an intimate celebrity memoir that gets beyond trashy revelation or prissy image control to tell something that sounds like the truth”The Times, The Times
“Tragedy and addiction vie for your attention in this jaw-dropping memoir”The Guardian, The Guardian
“This is a portrait of someone who strived for a normal life but for whom normality was forever denied”i, i
“The book is of two minds: It’s an unadorned, conversational memoir that’s more matter of fact than gossipy . . . And it’s a frank, almost unbearably heavy meditation on grief . . . Stunningly candid . . . Both women write gracefully about the unbearable, immovable heaviness of grief. Keough’s portrait of her mother in her final months is especially indelible”The Washington Post, The Washington Post
