A glorious sweeping novel of desire ambition and the thirst for knowledge from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and CommittedLook out for Elizabeth Gilberts new book Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear on sale now In The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker