Jessica Knauss
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Lucy K. Pick:
Why did you decide to have your main character come from so far to walk the Camino?
Lucy K. Pick
Hi Jessica,
That was part of the original inspiration for the novel. A twelfth-century manuscript about the pilgrimage called the Codex Calixtinus has a line in it saying it was written in part by someone named Gebirga of Flanders. So I had to figure out what might make a woman in Flanders become interested in the journey to Santiago. The answer to that became my story.
That was part of the original inspiration for the novel. A twelfth-century manuscript about the pilgrimage called the Codex Calixtinus has a line in it saying it was written in part by someone named Gebirga of Flanders. So I had to figure out what might make a woman in Flanders become interested in the journey to Santiago. The answer to that became my story.
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