"Call of the Camino"

Suzanne Redfearn is the #1 Amazon and USA Today bestselling author of eight novels: Call of the Camino, Two Good Men, Where Butterflies Wander, Moment In Time, Hadley & Grace, In an Instant, No Ordinary Life, and Hush Little Baby. Her books have been translated into twenty-seven languages and have been recognized by RT Reviews, Target Recommends, Goodreads, Publisher’s Marketplace, and Kirkus Reviews. She has been awarded Best New Fiction from Best Book Awards and has been a Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist.

Born and raised on the east coast, Redfearn moved to California when she was fifteen. Currently, she lives in Laguna Beach with her husband where they own Lumberyard Restaurant. In addition to being an author, Redfearn is an architect specializing in residential and commercial design. When not writing, she enjoys doing anything and everything with her family—skiing, golf, tennis, pickleball, hiking, board games, and watching reality TV. She is an avid baseball fan. Her team is the Angels.

Redfearn applied the Page 69 Test to Call of the Camino with the following results:

I have always loved this test for how well it works. For whatever reason, page sixty-nine always seems to be highly indicative of what is at the heart of the story, and applying the Page 69 Test to Call of the Camino was no exception.

On page sixty-nine, Isabelle, one of the two protagonists, meets the love of her life, Peter, who she doesn’t know is the love of her life at the time, but their friendship and eventual romance is what will drive her storyline from that point forward. She also happens to meet him in a cathedral, where she is praying for the loss of two friends, and her relationship with her faith is also central to her journey.

Opening the book to page sixty-nine would give a reader a good sense of one of the underlying, driving forces of one of the two storylines. But since Call of the Camino is about two journeys along the path of St. James, it only gives a glimpse at half the book. It also does not show any of the Camino de Santiago, which is the backbone of the story. I think a reader might mistakenly believe, based on that single page, that the story is a romance and not the story of two women’s transformative journeys along an ancient, legendary trail told a generation apart.

Call of the Camino was inspired by my own experience walking the Camino de Santiago, a five-hundred-mile pilgrimage across Spain, and the characters were inspired by the amazing people I met along the way.

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Coffee with a Canine: Suzanne Redfearn and Cooper.

My Book, The Movie: Hush Little Baby.

The Page 69 Test: Hush Little Baby.

The Page 69 Test: No Ordinary Life.

Writers Read: Suzanne Redfearn (February 2016).

My Book, The Movie: No Ordinary Life.

My Book, The Movie: In an Instant.

The Page 69 Test: In an Instant.

Q&A with Suzanne Redfearn.

My Book, The Movie: Hadley and Grace.

The Page 69 Test: Hadley & Grace.

Writers Read: Suzanne Redfearn (March 2022).

The Page 69 Test: Moment in Time.

My Book, The Movie: Moment in Time.

Writers Read: Suzanne Redfearn (February 2024).

Writers Read: S. E. Redfearn (October 2024).

The Page 69 Test: Two Good Men.

Writers Read: Suzanne Redfearn (October 2025).

My Book, The Movie: Call of the Camino.

--Marshal Zeringue