The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Joyce’s beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeing story of ‘ordinary’ English lives that enthralls and moves you as it unfolds.”—People (four stars) IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST Meet Harold Fry, recently retired.

He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does.

Little differentiates one day from the next.

Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl, from a woman he hasn’t heard from in twenty years.

Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye.

But before Harold mails off a quick reply, a chance encounter convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person.