While Harold Fry was walking up through England with his media circus (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Henry Fry), Queenie preparing to die, was hanging on for him. This is what she did while she waited in her Catholic hospice. Unable to speak, she wrote and wrote and wrote. The nuns typed and Queenie’s reminiscences poured out. A beautiful tale of unrequited love, or tragedy and of her life in the hospice, of her fellow patients, all waiting to die and all becoming involved in waiting for Harry Fry. This is lovely, a pure gem.
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From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story. When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harold everything. In confessing to secrets she has hidden for twenty years, she will find atonement for the past. As the volunteer points out, 'Even though you've done your travelling, you're starting a new journey too.' Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story. She was wrong. It was the beginning. Told in simple, emotionally-honest prose, with a mischievous bite, this is a novel about the journey we all must take to learn who we are; it is about loving and letting go. And most of all it is about finding joy in unexpected places and at times we least expect.
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Or the Letter That Was Never Sent to Harold Fry features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Or the Letter That Was Never Sent to Harold Fry is available in Paperback
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Or the Letter That Was Never Sent to Harold Fry was written by Rachel Joyce and published by Black Swan an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Or the Letter That Was Never Sent to Harold Fry has 380 pages
Yes it is part of Harold Fry series
£8.99
