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“She’s a travel writer by profession and she is sent to walk the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain, a very famous pilgrimage—probably one of the most famous in the world. During it, she has something like an existential crisis and begins to reexamine her life. She gives up a job, ends a long-term relationship, goes back to Wales, where she’s from, and begins to explore some of Britain’s pilgrim paths. She explains from the outset that she’s not a religious soul, but she ends up finding these journeys are a way of confronting and processing troubling moments in her life. These are very serious things—toxic relationships, depression, an eating disorder. So it’s an honest and heartfelt exploration of how place and travel can act as a palliative force.” Read more...
Tom Parfitt, Journalist
