September may have come all at once this year, but you can evoke the spirit of sapphic summer with The Charm Offensive author Alison Cochrun’s brand new fourth novel, Every Step She Takes .
Set in sunny Portugal, the romantic comedy follows 35-year-old Sadie, a chronically single antique furniture shop owner from Seattle, as she attempts to walk the famous Camino de Santiago in place of her injured influencer sister. However, tackling the historic network of pilgrimage routes is far from the relaxing stroll Sadie expected: a mixture of bad dates with men, some alarming turbulence and the extremely hot woman sitting next to her on the plane bring Sadie to the conclusion that she’s probably a lesbian.
When the hot woman – revealed as a ridiculously wealthy vineyard heiress named Mal – just