Throughout my career as a bookseller, one of my favorite duties was selecting the books to be displayed on the bookstore’s Front Table. Usually just inside the front door, a stack on that table was the best way to tell fellow readers “pick this one next.” Now that I’m retired, I no longer have such …
Fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will rejoice in this companion story, told in Queenie’s candid voice from the hospice where she’s fighting cancer and waiting for Harold’s arrival. For the first time, Queenie tells the truth about her life, her love for Harold Fry, and the yet-to-be-revealed connection she has to Harold’s son. Her love …
“This is my favorite book so far this year. Retired, proper Englishman Harold Fry gets a letter from an old acquaintance saying she has cancer. He struggles to write a reply. Then he struggles to mail his reply, so he just walks across England to hand deliver his letter. While Harold is walking he has …
