Buen Camino

Beyond the Journey

Buen Camino
Thea Hughes
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Paperback
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1 Oct 2009 NZ
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9780473150860
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Buen Camino - beyond the journey, is the debut novel of Thea Hughes - winner of A Woman's Write Fiction Book Competition. This is the story of Ana, a young woman rejected by her mother and sexually abused by her father as a child, who has carried the weight of her traumatic experiences long enough. At the age of thirty, she walks across Spain on the 764 kilometer medieval pilgrim trail, the Camino de Santiago, discovering its colourful history, myths, legends and beautiful Spanish countryside, on a life-changing quest to end her childhood pain. The overwhelming physical demands of the walk add to Ana's emotional suffering. Through an unlikely friendship with Richard, a gentle, older man in the early stages of Alzheimer's, she learns how to let go of the burden she has carried for so long. Richard teaches Ana to leave the past behind and to live in the here and now - as his illness has forced him to do. These two become improbable friends: one who cannot remember and one who cannot forget. It is along the el Camino path that Ana's spiritual journey takes place, for it is here she finds acceptance, friendship and love, as well as the courage to take on her own journey of the rest of her life.
Thea Hughes graduated from Cape Town University in South Africa with a Bachelor of Social Science where she then pursued a career working with dysfunctional families. She has travelled extensively, hiking and cycling in North and South America, Europe, Africa and New Zealand. She has always been fascinated by the spiritual journey that accompanies the physical one and her walk along the Camino inspired her novel Buen Camino - beyond the journey. This is her first novel. Thea now lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her four adult children and her five grandchildren. Her next novel, Cry for the Moon, is set during the Apartheid years in South Africa.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780473150860
Published: 1 Oct 2009
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Scintilla Publishers
Publisher: Scintilla Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pages: 253

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