Australian writer
Elizabeth Best is an Australian author from Bendigo, Victoria.[1]
The Year We Seized the Day (2007) co-authored with Colin Bowles, is a non-fiction travel book describing the two authors' shared journey along the Camino de Santiago. It is an Amazon.com bestseller and continues to sell internationally.[2][3][4]
- Eli's Wings was first published by Penguin Books Australia Ltd. 2002. It became a bestseller on release and earned several reprints and new additions, and was published internationally. Eli's Wings chronicles Best's personal struggle with and full recovery from, a life threatening case of anorexia and how she overcame it: "Eli was an alter ego I created," Best said. "I hated absolutely everything about myself. Eli was a blueprint for who I wanted to be."[5][6][7][1]
Elizabeth Best is the daughter of Ron Best.