![]() ![]() 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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