ON PILGRIMAGE
By Jennifer Lash
Bloomsbury, £6.99 (Non-fiction)
ISBN 0 747 53651 1
STILL RECUPERATING from cancer treatment and inspired by the example of 15th-century pilgrim Margery Kempe, Jennifer Lash set off on a journey through France into northern Spain, finishing at the shrine of Santiago de Compostela. Trying to clarify her own intense spirituality, Lash visited the popular (Lourdes, Taize) and the less well-known (Dhagpo, Chaise Dieu). She recorded the sights and sounds, as well as her own reflections, with intelligence and sensitivity. - MH