THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY
By Rachel Joyce
Black Swan. 356 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978 0 552 778 091
This is an easy read by an accomplished writer.
Rachel Joyce has written radio-dramas for a number of years and it shows in her writing. She can hold her audience, create character and twist a plot.
Harold Fry and his wife Maureen are quiet people just beginning retired life when a letter arrives from a hospice. It tells Harold that a colleague of his, Queenie Hennessey, long since moved from Devon to Northumberland, has cancer. Harold sets out to post a polite letter to Queenie, but instead walks past the post box and into the countryside. He walks and walks until he reaches Berwick.
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