The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry

Author(s): Rachel Joyce

Location(s): Northumberland, Devon

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Retired couple, Harold and Maureen, are living in Devon, when something happens that will change their future. Aletter arrives for Harold from a former colleague of his at the brewery, Queenie Hennessy. He takes his reply to the postbox but just continues walking, in his yachtin shoes towards the hopsice where she is in Berwick – that is a distance of over 450 miles. in parts sad and touching, acutely observed, a stunner of a read.

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Author: Anne Cater

I feel very much in the minority about The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – the novel has been the subject of much discussion since it was published last year, and has won many awards. There is no doubt...