This is a slender book but it has all the power and weight of a classic. Short, exquisite, while it stands in its own right, it is also the moving finale to a trilogy that began with the phenomenal bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and continued with The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.

Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North is a deeply felt, lyrical and powerful novel, full of warmth and kindness, about love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves and our lives a little better. All she knows is that she must get there. She has little sense of what she'll find at the end of the road. She struggles to bond with strangers, and the landscape she crosses has changed radically. Now, ten years later, an unexpected message from the North disturbs her equilibrium again, and this time it is Maureen's turn to make her own journey.īut Maureen is not like Harold. Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she now shares with her husband Harold after his iconic walk across England. 'It may waver, but it knows where it is going, and in the journey has something to say.' Tweet. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make. The journey progresses much as you might expect, as Harold meets colourful locals, gets into mishaps, and exasperates his wife Maureen (Penelope Wilton) as she follows him through phone calls and. Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. It's beautiful all through, but the closing chapters are just astonishing, transcendent and hope-filled and life-affirming.' Donal Ryan Paddington actor Jim Broadbent ’s latest movie, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, tells the story of how one man deals with his grief by going on a long walk along the length of England. 'A powerful finale to her classic trilogy of heartbreak and healing.' Clare Chambers

funny, touching and quite beautiful.' Matt Cain The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry tells the story of a man who leaves his seaside town in South Devon to deliver a message to an old friend.

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