The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
From Random House:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
“[Rachel]
Joyce’s beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeming story of ‘ordinary’
English lives that enthralls and moves you as it unfolds.”—People (four stars)
Meet
Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with
his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does.
Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning a letter
arrives, addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl, from a woman he hasn’t
heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is
writing to say goodbye. But before Harold mails off a quick reply, a
chance encounter convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his
message to Queenie in person. In his yachting shoes and light coat,
Harold Fry embarks on an urgent quest. Determined to walk six hundred
miles to the hospice, Harold believes that as long as he walks, Queenie
will live. A novel of charm, humor, and profound insight into the
thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise—and utterly irresistible—storyteller.
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