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What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim

A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela

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Impulse is intuition on Crack. If Intuition is the prudent angel who carefully directs your spirit, then Impulse is its mischief-making twin. The "imp in impulse." And thus begins Jane Christmas's second book chronicling a walk a very long walk taken to celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life. From a chance encounter, Jane Christmas is inspired to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a goal she mentioned in a CBC radio interview. That casual mention insipired others, too, and Christmas finds herself "leader" of 14 women who have all signed on to hike the Camino with her. Before leaving, a psychic warns her of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man. Udaunted, Christmas soldiers on. In vivid, irreverant style, she recounts the joys and struggles she encountered on this challenging pilgrimage—her battles with loneliness, group dynamics, and exhaustion, and more. What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim is one trip neither the author or listener will forget.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Canadian writer Jane Christmas narrates her own story of embarking upon the Camino de Santiago at the age of 50. This famous pilgrimage requires hikers to traverse long distances to reach the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. The trouble is, she sets off accompanied by 14 other middle-aged women, all of whom have their own ideas about what the Camino means to them and how to tackle its challenges. Christmas palpably describes her frustration with the group and with the rigors of the Camino. Though some of her descriptions may be intended to be humorous, in her voicing they end up sounding critical instead. Her narration also suffers from her mispronunciation of Spanish names and places. S.E.G. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

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