Steps Out of Time, Katharine B. Soper
Steps Out of Time, Katharine B. Soper
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Steps Out of Time
One Woman's Journey on the Camino

Author: Katharine B. Soper

Narrator: Donna Postel

Unabridged: 13 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/01/2019

Synopsis

Years ago an overachieving and harried young mother accidentally flushed her gold watch down the toilet. Time passed, but the image of the lost watch continued to haunt her, a symbol of an overcommitted life. Two decades later, propelled by a series of curious coincidences, she leaves behind her busy professional life, her cell phone, and her family to escape the tyranny of time and walk five hundred miles across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela.

Steps Out of Time brings the mysterious and wonderful world of the Camino to life with its tales of serendipitous encounters, new friends made (and one tragically lost), stunning natural beauty, and unforgettable food. By the end of her journey, an exhausted and exhilarated Katharine Soper is keenly aware that she has completed much more than a month-long walk.

About Katharine B. Soper

Katharine B. Soper has worked as a French professor, an attorney practicing divorce law and insurance defense law, a divorce mediator, a writer and editor at the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a University of Michigan administrator. Earlier in her life, she supervised line-walkers on the Alaska pipeline, guided student tours to France and Spain, and taught English to mid-level executives in Bogota, Colombia, and to air traffic controllers at the Bordeaux International Airport. But of all her adventures, the one that most profoundly changed her life came at age fifty-seven when she first walked the Camino Frances from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, to Santiago de Compostella, Spain. The journal she kept during this 800-kilometer trek is the basis for Steps Out of Time: One Woman's Journey on the Camino.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean on January 24, 2019

This book won a silver medal in the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Competition and an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Award Program. The story is about a woman’s journey walking the Santiago de Compostela. I was surprised that I enjoyed the book far more than I had expec......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on January 13, 2016

I thought it was insightful. I admire the people who walk the Camino! We were lucky to have the author at our book club.......more

Goodreads review by Julie on May 06, 2023

I enjoyed this recounting and some practical advice for a modern pilgrim of the Camino. Kate does a good job at blending the historical fact, with personal insight and humorous stories. There was a lot of background but since most people do use the Camino as a way to grieve/to grow/to learn thats so......more

Goodreads review by Eve on February 10, 2020

I have read a lot of pilgrimage memoirs, some better than others. This may be the most poignant, an uniquely feminine journey. Frankly, the title sounded boring to me, and I wasn’t expecting much. Instead I was almost instantly engaged in her story. It isn’t that Camino literature is so different. I......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on November 10, 2024

This is a beautiful account of a woman’s physical and spiritual journey on the Camino—the blisters, the pilgrims she meets along the way, and the multi-sensory experiences she enjoys. I read a chapter each night, which gave me the feeling of hiking along. It was a pleasant diversion from the acrimon......more

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