The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry

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‘Impossible to put down’ TIMES’Life-affirming delight. A comic pleasure’ WOMAN AND HOME’Profoundly moving’ RICHARD MADELEYOVER 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD. NOW A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING JIM BROADBENT AND PENELOPE WILTON____________________When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other.He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else’s life.Harold Fry is the most ordinary of men. He just might be a hero for us all.____________________’A gorgeously hopeful book’ OPRAH MAGAZINE’A funny book, a wise book, a charming book . . . Harold Fry is just wonderful … I love this book’ ERICA WAGNER, THE TIMES’The odyssey of a simple man, original, subtle and touching’ CLAIRE TOMALIN’One of the sweetest, most delicately-written stories I’ve read in a long time. One man’s walk along the length of England to save the life of a dying woman . . . Philosophical, intriguing, and profoundly moving’ RICHARD MADELEY’Full of heart, laced through with wry wit. I loved Harold and Maureen and their separate journeys . . . A celebration of being alive, being human. Beautiful!’ NIAMH CUSACK’Tender and funny, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry shows that even our frailties can be uplifting and redemptive’ EDWARD STOURTON____________________RACHEL JOYCE’S NEW NOVEL, MAUREEN, THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE ‘HAROLD FRY TRILOGY’, IS OUT IN PAPERBACK 8 JUNE 2023____________________

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Weight 0.262 kg
Dimensions 2.3 × 12.7 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

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Pages

384

Publisher

Year Published

2013-1-2

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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0552778095

About The Author

Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North, The Music Shop, Miss Benson's Beetle, and a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Rachel’s books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The critically acclaimed film of the novel, for which Rachel also wrote the screenplay, was released in 2023. Miss Benson’s Beetle won the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize in 2021. Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards New Writer of the Year in December 2012 and was shortlisted for the UK Author of the Year in 2014. In 2024 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Kingston University.Rachel has written over twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4. She lives with her family near Stroud.

One of the sweetest, most delicately-written stories I've read in a long time. One man's walk along the length of England to save the life of a dying woman. Each chapter describes a different encounter along the way, with a definite nod to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Philosophical, intriguing, and profoundly moving.

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Uplifting, funny and delicate

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