Böcker av Claire Russell

"My love, you bring me joy."As these words penetrate my consciousness I am almost overcome with shock. I strain to hear more, but there is nothing. It is Henry, I know, Henry speaking to me. The following day there is this: "You bring me joy. Don't ever leave me." It is Henry Thoreau, recognizing me as the woman who had been Ellen Sewall.

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And just like that I've a new moniker - widow. Instantly I'm exiled to a strange foreign country. What I had believed to be a lifetime visa to happiness has been revoked and it seems as if I will never get my passport back to normality.' When Claire Russell lost her husband 10 days before Christmas, her life was torn apart. Morning rituals, shared jokes, annual traditions - the cornerstones of a life well-lived - vanished in a cruel, heartbreaking second. What to do with this newly minted but unwanted existence? How was she to regain a sense of normality in a world so irrevocably changed? Never one to do things by halves, Claire decided to embark on an epic solo adventure - walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In 300 kilometres and 12 days, she hoped to find a way back - to herself.