You will like this author even if she had her backpack sent ahead and used a company (Camino Ways) to book her rooms. Sonia Choquette, as a world renown intuitive guide and spiritual teacher, walked the Camino after her life and her marriage fell apart. She is a life coach, yet needed the journey to heal herself.
The book is written in an easy conversational style and I would recommend it to people –
- Who are intuitive themselves and can relate to the influence of past lives.
- Who want to know what it’s like to use a service to forward your luggage and book your rooms.
- Who would like to know what goes on in pilgrims’ minds, as they walk the Camino. “Walking Home” is 80% interior monologue.
- Who would like to know what it’s like to walk 6 weeks in almost constant rain and bitter cold in May.
- Who would like to walk the Camino on their own, with little interruption.
In 2008, the author in her late 40s – early 50s, with almost no training, set out from Chicago to walk the Camino France´s over 6 weeks in May/June. She is authentic, sincere, kind, in pain, open to others, but still a very private person.
I enjoyed the book, mainly because Sonia walked on her own and kept her optimism through some relentless weather conditions that would have put many into a tailspin. I did, however, find her struggles with letting go of her demons quite repetitious – I skimmed a lot. Still, “Walking Home” reminds me that everyone’s Camino is different, everyone’s needs are different and every pilgrim is a unique entity.
P.S. The book has a happy ending!!