From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough

Narrated by: Julia Roberts, Riley Keough

Winner of the Audible Best of the Year Award for Celebrity Memoirs

Including the never-before-heard tape recordings of Lisa Marie Presley, this audiobook is movingly read by her daughter, Riley Keough, and multi award-winning actress Julia Roberts.

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.

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; never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and grieved.

Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story: about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland; about the unconditional love she felt from her father, Elvis; about being upstairs, just the two of them. 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, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, and about being married to Michael Jackson, and what they had in common. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother’s wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.

To make her mother known.

This extraordinary book is composed of both Lisa Marie’s and Riley’s voices, a mother and daughter communicating across the chasm of life and death as they try to heal each other. Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other – the last words of the only child of a true legend.

Winner of the Audible Best of the Year Award in Australia for Celebrity Memoirs, w/b 02/12/24.

Critic reviews

The result is an intimate celebrity memoir that gets beyond trashy revelation or prissy image control to tell something that sounds like the truth

Tragedy and addiction vie for your attention in this jaw-dropping memoir

This is a portrait of someone who strived for a normal life but for whom normality was forever denied

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

Instead of tap dancing around the hard parts, we’re drilling into the bedrock . . . and these passages show how determined she [Lisa Marie] was to stand up to her demons

Thoroughly engrossing portrait of intergenerational sorrows

A truly wild, compelling tale

You don’t have to be a Presley fan to be riveted by the revelations

A brief but fascinating life

This is certainly something special and set apart from your usual memoirs. Riley reads her own parts with raw and heartfelt vulnerability and Julia Roberts reads Lisa Marie’s. The inclusion of the tape recordings adds authenticity, knowing that Lisa Marie truly had her heart in this.

I enjoyed the stories of her childhood, her own struggles with her identity outside of her father and the family she started. There is a considerable amount of depth and I appreciated how it didn’t rehash the stuff we already know (for example, what the media has already reported about her marriage to Michael Jackson or Priscilla’s involvement in establishing Graceland) but rather focused on the experience of living through it. The ending was abrupt, but so was her death. Overall, Riley Keough did a great job of completing her mother’s work and this is a great listen.

interesting, well told...depressing

I'm not sure why I found myself purchasing this title. I'm interested in human psychology I suppose but don't have any particular interest or even previous knowledge of Lisa-Marie.

I was surprised to hear Giulia Roberts voice, but now have come to realise that Lisa-Marie was quite famous/stalked by the press.


It's a sad story. because of that I don't think I would choose to listen again. it's a tragedy when you have everything to have a good life, mind you with some trauma, but don't have the right mindset. it's sad she didn't have the tools to accept her father's death.