A smart funny novel of love self-acceptance second chances and blisters from the author of The Rosie Project. Two misfits walk 2000km along the Camino to find themselves and perhaps each other. ''Charming and absorbing'' Daily Mail ''Sleepless in Seattle meets Wild. A beautifully crafted tale of love self-acceptance and blisters'' Sunday Express Zoe a sometime artist is from California. Martin an engineer is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past - for Zoe the death of her husband; for Martin a messy divorce. Looking to make a new start each sets out alone to walk two thousand kilometres from Cluny to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the Camino for centuries. The Camino changes you it''s said. It''s a chance to find a new version of yourself and a new beginning. But can these two very different people find themselves? Will they find each other? In this smart funny and romantic journey Martin''s and Zoe''s stories are told in alternating chapters by husband-and-wife team Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist. Two Steps Forward is a novel about renewal - physical psychological and spiritual. It''s about the challenge of walking a long distance and of working out where you are going. And it''s about what you decide to keep what you choose to leave behind and what you rediscover along the way. Optioned for film by Ellen deGeneres. . Language: English