FINDING GRACE: She went out to buy wine. She didn't mean to disappear.
"She went out to buy wine. She didn't mean to disappear."
Grace is fifty.
She's not a walker. She's not even a brisk stroller. She's the kind of woman who takes sips of Chardonnay whilst doing a thirty-day online yoga challenge stretched over an entire year.
On the night of a combined birthday and wedding-anniversary celebration, Grace leaves the house to buy more wine.
And keeps walking.
What follows is a journey across France and Spain on the Camino de Santiago, told through her eyes, the eyes of the family she left behind, and the strangers she meets along the way.
A sharp, funny and deeply human novel about marriage, depression, family mythology, lost dreams and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
"The people in the photo were trapped in a different reality, one where things still felt possible."
For readers who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Instructions for a Heatwave, Still Life and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.