The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

NOMINATED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD“A warm, thoughtful tale about love, regret and redemption. . . . This lovely book is full of joy. . . . An ode to messy, imperfect, glorious, unsung humanity.” —The Washington Post“Joyce’s follow-up is equally charming and sure to delight. . . . Joyce’s characters are so endearing, you can’t help but fall in love with them, and it’s impossible not to be moved as Queenie sorts through her life’s memories—her sorrows and pleasures—deciding what to tell Harold. Unpredictably, the hospice setting offers many sweet and laugh-out-loud moments . . . Queenie may be near the end, but her world is alive with faith and hope.” —Chatelaine“[The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy] is a moving tale of loneliness, loss and acceptance. . . . [with] an affectionate warmth and humour in the prose.” ―Reuters“Exquisite, funny and heartrending.” —The Telegraph (UK) “If you enjoyed Harold’s odyssey, you will adore this book. A page into this tender tale and it is clearly the perfect companion piece to the original story of Harold Fry. . . . Joyce gives us the woman who inspired Harold and his unlikely pilgrimage and, just like Harold, it is hard not to fall in love with her too.” —The Daily Express (UK) “If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, you’ll be thrilled with this sequel.” —Fabulous Magazine (UK) “A warm companion to its predecessor, probing the world of the dying and the relief that kind gestures can bring to otherwise solitary journeys.” —Financial Times (UK) “We’re treated to the hilarious black humour and lump-in-the-throat poignancy of day-to-day life amongst the motley cast of Queenie’s fellow doomed hospice patients. . . . It will be a hard-hearted reader who can finish it without tears.” —Daily Mail (UK)   “[A] funny, emotional story.” —Marie Claire  “An extraordinarily touching portrait both of what it’s like in a hospice . . . and of Queenie’s determination to explain herself before it’s too late. Her contemplation of the past also adds up to an almost defiant celebration of ordinary life as most of us live it.” —Reader’s Digest  “Within the world of Harold Fry and Miss Queenie Hennessy . . . layer after layer of joint history is exposed gently, quietly, and gracefully. . . . I’ve often found myself wistfully wishing for another glimpse into Harold and Queenie’s world.” —Stylist “[A] haunting story. . . . Invest in a box of Kleenex before you start this tear-jerker.” —Woman and Home“[There are] some gently comic moments and pitch-perfect black humour that Joyce writes so well.” —The Independent (UK) “[The Love Song] is not without its own pleasurable uplift: a spiritual wind beneath its wings. Harold’s pilgrimage creates an atmosphere of fun and joy. . . . It will certainly find a grateful readership.” —The Guardian (UK)“The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy ends with a flourishing double twist that will leave you wide-eyed and wanting to go back and read it all again. And why not, because a second reading will bring out the subtler colours of this quietly wondrous book. . . . But most of all relish its celebration of the kind of love that endures decades of silence and even death, and emerges burnished all the brighter.” —The Times (UK)