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Maureen / Rachel Joyce.
The final piece of the Harold Fry trilogy, revisiting the characters ten years on to tell a story about loss and love and forgiveness. Ten years after her husband, Harold Fry, made his extraordinary walk across England to try and save a dying friend, Maureen Fry makes her own pilgrimage, and although she packs a proper bag and takes the car, her trip will be equally transformative. Unlike her husband, Maureen does not make friends easily, and she is not entirely sure what she hopes to find at the end of the road, but this is a journey she knows she must make, whatever obstacles present themselves on the way.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385684026 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xxi, 161 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Doubleday Canada, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes a book club guide. Originally published as Maureen: New York, NY : The Dial Press, 2023. Originally published as Maureen Fry and the angel of the North: London : Doubleday, 2022. |
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| Subject: | Automobile travel > Fiction. Older people > England > Fiction. Voyages and travels > Fiction. Women > England > Fiction. England > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Road fiction. Novels. |
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"A touching tale about heartbreak and healing. . . . If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fryand The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, make time to read this finale to the trilogy." âGood Housekeeping
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Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to save a friend. But the story doesnât end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.
Only she can finish the journey her husband started.
Maureen and Harold Fry have settled into a quiet life, but when an unexpected message from the North disturbs their peaceful equilibrium, Maureen realizes that itâs now her turn to make a journey. But she is not like her affable, easygoing husband. By turns outspoken, then vulnerable, she struggles to form bonds with the people she meetsâand the landscape she crosses has radically changed. Maureen has no sense of what she will find at the end of the road. All she knows is that she has to get there.
A deeply felt, lyrical, and powerful novel, Maureen explores love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves a little better. While this book stands alone, it is also the extraordinarily moving finale to a trilogy that began with the phenomenal bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and continued in The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Like those beloved books, Maureen has all the power and weight of a classic.
