Two steps forward
Simsion, Graeme C.2018
Book
Author of }The Rosie Project{ Graeme Simsion has teamed up with Annie Buist, alternating chapters in this story of an engineer from Yorkshire and an artist from California embarking on the 2000 kilometre walk from Cluny to Santiago de Compostela, finding solace from recent hardships in the journey, and potentially in each other. 'Charming and absorbing' Daily Mail 'Sleepless in Seattle meets Wild ... A beautifully crafted tale of love, self-acceptance, and blisters' Sunday ExpressA smart, funny novel of second chances and reinvention from the author of The Rosie Project - two misfits walk 2,000 km along the Camino to find themselves and, perhaps, each other. Optioned for film by Ellen deGeneres, and now an international bestseller.Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past - for Zoe, the death of her husband; for Martin, a messy divorce.Looking to make a new start, each sets out alone to walk two thousand kilometres from Cluny to Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain, in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the Camino (the Way) for centuries. The Camino changes you, it's said. It's a chance to find a new version of yourself, and a new beginning. But can these two very different people find themselves? Will they find each other? In this smart, funny and romantic journey, Martin's and Zoe's stories are told in alternating chapters by husband-and-wife team Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist. Two Steps Forward is a novel about renewal - physical, psychological and spiritual. It's about the challenge of walking a long distance and of working out where you are going. And it's about what you decide to keep, what you choose to leave behind and what you rediscover along the way.
Main title:
Two steps forward / Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist.
Author:
Simsion, Graeme C., authorBuist, Anne, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Two Roads, 2018.
Collation:
356 pages : map (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 2017.
ISBN:
9781473675407 (hbk)9781473675421 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR9619.3.S497
Language:
English
Subject:
Camino de Santiago de Compostela -- FictionGeneralModern & contemporary fictionReligious & spiritual fictionChristianityFiction: general & literaryContemporary lifestyle fictionFamily life fictionHumorous fictionTravel & holidayTravel guides: activity holidaysWalking, hiking, trekkingFranceSpainIntended specifically for women and/or girlsPortugal
BRN:
319448