The warts and grittiness of Christmas’s journey. style is equal parts Nora Ephron and Bill Bryson, balancing pithy observation with the history of the trail and her own experiences upon it.
Her first sentence, ‘Impulse is intuition on crack,’ sets the tone, as noted by Quill & Quire, which says: “This is the real deal. One of my personal favorites is our first book, What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim, our July 2023 JourneyWoman Book Club Book of the Month. These six books about the Camino come recommended by JourneyWoman readers and share stories of self-discovery and unexpected misadventures, many from women in midlife. From popular memoirs from authors like Paulo Cohelo, Shirley MacLaine and Hape Kerkeling, to guidebooks like John Brierley’s A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Camino de Santiago (Camino Francés), there is no shortage of wisdom and practical advice. The Camino de Santiago has no doubt inspired hundreds, if not thousands, of books about this world-reowned pilgrimage route, which traverses parts of southern France, Portugal and Spain. Midlife misadventures and more on the Camino de Santiago
