by Rachel Joyce · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552778091
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«The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry» is the novel by Rachel Joyce, published by Black Swan in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Harold Fry, an English retiree, receives a letter from Queenie Hennessy, a former colleague saying goodbye from a hospice. Without equipment or a plan, he decides to walk across England to deliver his reply, convinced that as long as he walks, Queenie will stay alive. Encounters with strangers stir memories of his marriage and fatherhood.
It is the first instalment of Rachel Joyce's Harold Fry series. The novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize and became a Sunday Times bestseller.
Suitable for book clubs and readers of contemporary and literary fiction.
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Rachel Joyce is a British writer. She has written plays for BBC Radio 4, and jointly won the 2007 Tinniswood Award for her radio play To Be a Pilgrim. Her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, was on the longlist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, and in December 2012 she was awarded the "New Writer of the Year" award by the National Book Awards for this book.
