the unlikely pilgrimage of harold fry book review

Harold writes a letter back to her and walks to the end of the road to the post-box, but then he decides to walk to the next one and then the one after and before long he’s phoned the hospice and asked them to tell Queenie not too die, as he walking to her. Queenie Hennessy is dying of cancer, she just wants to say goodbye. Its postal address is a hospice in Berwick – on – Tweed, at the other end of the country.

One morning in his home in Devon Harold receives a letter from a woman he used to work with, but hasn’t seen or heard from in about 20 years. Harold is on a pilgrimage too, just like Bernard Jordan. This brings us on to this month’s book, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.

Jordan sadly died at the beginning of January. Pilgrimages, as was the case in June last year when D-Day veteran Bernard Jordan, who after being told by staff at his care home in England that he couldn’t attend the 70 th anniversary memorial services in Normandy. BUT ESPECIALLY THOSE INTERESTED IN MODERN IRISH HISTORYĪnnecater on WOHLLEBEN REACHES NEW HEIGHTS,…Īnnecater on BROTHERTON KEEPS THE WHEELS IN… SOMERS DEBUT, IS A BOUTIQUE HOTEL, THAT PROVIDES SOMETHING FOR EVERY TASTE.BROTHERTON KEEPS THE WHEELS IN THE MIND TURNING, BY ASKING POIGNIANT QUESTIONS.SOLOMON’S DEBUT TAKES ME ON A LOVELY JOURNEY INTO THE HISTORICAL FICTION GENRE.TOWNSEND’S DEBUT, MAKES ME WARY OF FOREIGN PRACTICES AND BUILDERS, NOT JUST SPANISH.WOHLLEBEN REACHES NEW HEIGHTS, WITH A POWERFUL INSIGHT INTO THE LIVES OF TREES.I would recommend this book for book clubs and anyone who loves a good read. The descriptions of country, sea and sky are beautiful and it is a touching and moving story. At first we think it is a love story and Queenie is an old flame but things are much more complicated than that. The story has lots of undercurrents and surprises, Harold is totally unprepared for his adventure and there are lots of people that he meets on his travels who help him and encourage him to keep going. At first the post box is his only aim but he goes further and further away from home and decides to walk to Berwick upon Tweed from Kingsbridge in Devon. When he gets a letter from an old colleague, Queenie Hennessy, who is very ill, he drops everything and goes out to post his letter of sympathy. It is about a man called Harold Fry who has been retired for six months and is feeling a bit lost. This is a really well written first novel by a mother of four who lives in Gloucestershire.

Review by Marjorie Brand, member of Porchester evening Guild.

The unlikely pilgrimage of harold fry book review