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. Determined to walk six hundred miles to the hospice, Harold believes that as long as he walks, Queenie will live. In his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold Fry embarks on an urgent quest. But before Harold mails off a quick reply, a chance encounter convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. Until, one day Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Synopsis Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl, from a woman he hasn't heard from in twenty years. Little differentiates one day from the next. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Joyce's beguiling debut is modest-seeming story of 'ordinary' English lives that enthralls and moves you as it unfolds."- People (four stars)
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