In the StoryThe Pilgrim Everyone Was Waiting For
Twelve walkers are waiting for the man who changed their lives. They have never made this pilgrimage. On the Camino de Santiago, Inés Varela meets people who remember the same stranger. He is said to have helped them, saved them, set them moving again. Their stories give the route a destination no map mentions: finding the man they already believe they owe their thanks.
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
At ten to eight, the rain had not yet decided whether to fall. It hung in the air above Santiago’s rooftops, fine enough to dull the windows without forming drops, and Inés had opened the kitchen window because her father was toasting bread as if he meant to smoke someone out.Read the excerpt ↗