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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry #1)

Rachel Joyce

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

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Title	:	The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry #1)
Author	:	Rachel Joyce
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition (US)
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	July 24th 2012 by Random House (first published March 15th 2012)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary

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Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live. Still in his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold embarks on his urgent quest across the countryside. Along the way he meets one character after another, each of whom unlocks his long-dormant spirit and sense of promise. Memories of his first dance with Maureen, his wedding day, his joy in fatherhood, come rushing back to him - allowing him to also reconcile the losses and the regrets. As for Maureen, she finds herself missing Harold for the first time in years. And then there is the unfinished business with Queenie Hennessy.

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Original Title:	The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
ISBN:	0812993292 (ISBN13: 9780812993295)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Harold Fry #1
Characters:	Harold Fry
Setting:	Kingsbridge, England(United Kingdom) Loddiswell, England(United Kingdom) South Brent, England(United Kingdom) …more Exeter, Devon, England Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England Bath, Somerset, England(United Kingdom) Darlington, England(United Kingdom) …less
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2012), Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2012), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013), 本屋大賞 Nominee for Translated Fiction (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012)

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I won't be pursuing this read. After the first few chapters, the book and I decided to sit down and seriously talk about where this read was headed. The conversation went something like this:ME: Look, I don't mean to appear impatient, ok, I know you're doing your best to hold my attention in this read, but I have to admit to you, and I hope you can understand that this is in no way an indictement of the style or structure, but the whole plot feels rather contrived.TUPOHF: Where is this headed?

stil mulling this one. sometimes i really liked it and other moments i was...a little bored. there was definitely an overuse of "put one foot in front of the other" that verged on becoming a drinking game. the premise of the story is lovely but it did get a bit schlocky and mitch albom-y for my tastes. mentions of both facebook and twitter in the book were curious.edited to add (pasted in from my comment below, in case people don't read the comments here):you know, the further i get from reading

Found at The Sunday Edition:The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is the story of one man's faith in his feet. (OneEighteen/photopin)★★★★★ So well narrated by the wonderful Jim Broadbent. If you'd like to hear a bit of it, go here and click on the pod casts. It touched my heart.Jim Broadbent North Devon coastlineClovelly, North DevonTaunton, U.K. You can see the paving stones.Walled gardens in Taunton.Glastonbury England - The Resting place of the Legendary King ArthurMendip Hillshorse chestnut

I have just browsed through a bunch of reviews that are literally glowing with praise, so I feel rather embarrassed that I cannot be more enthused about this novel.I was really taken in by the premise and rather enjoyed the beginning of the book, probably until celebrity, hype and disciples befall Harold.From that point on, I started to find the book predictable, if not a little trite even. I also think that while I have nothing against a good dose of pathos, this may have bordered on the

Life was very different when you walked through it. What a surreal, emotional, weird and wonderful story! The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry follows the events in Harold's and his wife, Maureen's life after he receives a letter from Queenie Hennessya friend he hasn't seen in twenty years and to whom he owes a great debtinforming him that she is terminally ill at a hospice in Berwick. This causes Harold's thoughts to spiral as he realizes that he has several regrets about the life he has

I loved the purity and spare beauty of this sad but uplifting tale. At first I wondered how I could possibly get involved in this apparently absurd story. A retired salesman for a brewery receives a letter of goodbye from an old friend, Queenie, who is dying of cancer, and, on the way to the mailbox with a return reply, ends up setting out on a 500 mile walk to visit her. But it was a quick read and full of pleasant surprises and many special moments where the clouds of lifes travails and buried

A pilgrim is a traveler who is on a journey to a holy place.And, whether that holy place has an actual, physical location, like a Mecca or a Jerusalem, or is still yet to be determined by the traveler, your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. (Joseph Campbell)The pilgrim in this story, Harold Fry, may be the unlikeliest pilgrim as all. He's a 65-year-old recent retiree who hasn't seen his son or slept in the same room as his wife in twenty years. Harold has made a mess