NEW YORK TIMES 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.
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It is about all the wonderful everyday things Harold discovers through the mere process of putting one foot in front of the other.--Janet Maslin, The New York Times Look for special features inside.
In this bravely unpretentious and unsentimental take, she\'s cleared space where miracles are still possible.--Ron Charles, The Washington Post The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is not just a book about lost love.
Joyce] has a lovely sense of the possibilities of redemption. . .
Praise for The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry A] gorgeously poignant novel of hope and transformation.-- O: The Oprah Magazine A cause for celebration .
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.
Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye.
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.
NEW YORK TIMES 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
