“This later-in-life coming-out story is a rich exploration of queer identity and community, wrapped in a vacation romance.”
—Library Journal
Description
A swoon-worthy sapphic romance following two women who are thrown together on a European adventure, from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of the “sexy, insightful, and utterly charming” (BuzzFeed) Kiss Her Once for Me.
Thirty-five-year-old Seattleite Sadie Wells needs an escape. She’s desperate to escape her monotonous routines, the family business that has consumed her entire life, and the unexpected gay panic that has her questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. So when her injured sister offers Sadie her place on a tour along Portugal’s Camino de Santiago, she decides this is the perfect chance to get away from it all.
After three glasses of wine on the plane and some turbulence convince Sadie she won’t even survive the flight, she confesses all her secrets to her seatmate, Mal. The problem: the plane doesn’t crash, and it turns out Mal is on her Camino tour. Worst of all, Sadie learns that she is on a tour specifically for queer women, and that her two-hundred-mile trek will be a journey of self-discovery, whether she wants it to be or not.
Fascinated by the woman who drunkenly came out to her on the plane, Mal offers to help Sadie relive the queer adolescence she missed out on as they walk the Camino. As Sadie develops her newfound confidence, Mal grapples with a complicated loss and unexpected inheritance. But as their relationship blurs the lines between reality and practice, they both must decide if they will forever part at the end of the tour or chart a new course together.
With “funny, poignant” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) prose, Alison Cochrun explores the power of letting go of your past and realizing that it’s never too late to live as your authentic self.
Reviews
“An earnest journey of self discovery in this introspective contemporary… with witty banter, emotional vulnerability, and a delightful supporting cast. This slow-burning love story, deepened by a heartfelt depiction of a woman’s late coming-of-age, is sure to please Cochrun’s fans.”
—Publishers Weekly
“With Every Step She Takes, Alison Cochrun has once again crafted a gorgeous, nuanced, coming-of-age and love story all wrapped up in one. This book will make late bloomers feel seen and anyone with a beating heart feel. I’ll read absolutely anything Alison Cochrun writes.”
––Rachel Runya Katz, author of Whenever You’re Ready
“Alison Cochrun has done it again. Every Step She Takes is a heartfelt pilgrimage of self-discovery, sexy in its vulnerability and intimacy. For the late bloomers finding themselves, and forgiving themselves, and discovering they’re exactly where they’re supposed to be.”
––Rachael Lippincott, New York Times bestselling author of She Gets the Girl
