![]() ![]() When he reaches the post box at the end of his quiet, residential road he keeps on walking. Unsure how to respond, he pens a brief reply and sets out to post it. He learns that Queenie is in a hospice with terminal cancer. Into this sterile world arrives a letter from a former work colleague, Queenie Hennessy, who Harold has neither seen nor heard from in twenty years. His days stretch before him with little purpose. His wife spends her days cleaning their already clean house and finding reasons to berate him. He worked the same job for forty-five years but has few friends. Harold Fry has been retired for six months and rarely goes out. This is a story of loss, and of the particular loneliness experienced by those who build walls around their emotions. Although his journey teaches him a great deal about himself, others and life, the lessons learned by those he leaves behind are at least as powerful. The protagonist is sixty-five years old and is travelling on foot. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce, is a road trip story with a difference. ![]()
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![]() ![]() MAD HONEY, the stunning and compelling Sunday Times bestseller by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is available now. International bestselling author Jodi Picoult draws a touching and sensitive portrait of what it truly means to be a family in our society today in this compelling bestseller. In Max's eyes, Zoe and Vanessa's desire to raise a child together is an aberration.Īnd Zoe is not prepared to let her desire for a child go without a fight. THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS, Jodis stunning new novel about life, death and missed opportunities is available to pre-order now. ![]() ![]() But when Zoe and Vanessa approach Max to ask to use the frozen embryos left from their marriage, these paths come hurtling face to face. Zoe and Max Baxter spent ten years trying to get pregnant, until the heartbreak of their failure finally broke their marriage apart.Īfter the dissolution of their marriage, each seems on their own path to healing, as Max turns himself towards an evangelical church whilst Zoe finds solace in a new relationship with a woman, Vanessa. Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult This E-book Talking About : Rights sold to Netflix for adaptation as a feature film Named one of the best books of the. 'Jodi Picoult takes a controversial and provocative subject and uses it as a backdrop to a touching and emotional drama' Sunday Express ![]() ![]() ![]() It was written in haste, a few quickly typed lines before I launched into The Stone of Farewell. ![]() My review of The Dragonbone Chair did not do the novel justice. In STONE OF FAREWELL, Tad Williams sets his characters against impossible odds - and proves that the beloved, internationally-bestselling DRAGONBONE CHAIR was no fluke, but one of the greatest fantasy novels of all time. But no one knows where the Stone of Farewell is. And the Storm King may also be in possession of one of the swords.Ī single chance remains: if Simon can deliver Thorn to Joshua and lead his followers to the Stone of Farewell, the rebels may be able to muster the forces necessary to rise up against Elias and the Storm King. But Simon is more alone than ever before: his friends have been imprisoned and his liege lord, Prince Josua, has been exiled. ![]() Once but a humble kitchen-boy, Simon is now Simon Snowlock, dragonslayer and bearer of the mythical sword Thorn. A single hope remains: if the rebels can find the three swords of legend - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn - they might be able to bring the Storm King and evil King Elias down. ![]() Following a brutal civil war, Osten Ard has been crushed under the rule of the two villainous High Kings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Flipping through the pages of Newt's famous journal, you'll journey around the globe and discover the many and varied creatures that he made it his life's work to study and protect. ![]() ![]() Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. There are three in particular you might have heard mentioned by certain Hogwarts students, and that you can add to your listening list too, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.A set textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. "A glance through Muggle art and literature of the Middle Ages reveals that many of the creatures they now believe to be imaginary were then known to be real."As every fan of the Harry Potter stories knows, the shelves of the Hogwarts Library are home to all sorts of fascinating books. ![]() |