Steps Out of Time: One Woman's Journey on the Camino

Katharine B. Soper

Jan 2019 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Donna Postel

About this audiobook

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.

Ratings and reviews

An absorbing book that presents a gritty and honest account of walking the camino. We get to know the author intimately as she changes and learns along her formative journey. The people and landscapes of Spain are conjured with faithful precision, being poetic without feeling overembellished. We get to hear all aspects of what it is like to walk the camino, the wonder and the drudgery, and see the best and worst of humanity. The book is professionally written and consistently engaging throughout the 12 hours. The narration is expressive with accents of different nationalities bringing the characters to life. This will give anyone interested in walking the camino a real taste of what to expect, as well as being a great adventure story in its own right.

About the author

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. She lives with her husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Donna Postel is fascinated by all kinds of stories and loves telling them. From memoir and biography to literary fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense, Donna uses her innate curiosity, talent, and decades of experience on stage and in the recording studio to bring books to life.