The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The debut novel from Rachel Joyce—an international bestseller, a brilliant success and the start of a generation of Harold Fry–like characters.

Recently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a letter from Queenie Hennessy, an old friend, who he hasn't heard from in twenty years. She has written to say she is in hospice and wanted to say goodbye. Leaving his tense, bitter wife Maureen to her chores, Harold intends a quick walk to the corner mailbox to post his reply but instead, inspired by a chance encounter, he becomes convinced he must deliver his message to Queenie in person—who is six hundred miles away.

So without hiking boots, rain gear, map or cell phone,… Keep Reading