As an author myself, I love to read other people's books.
Let me tell you about the book I have just finished reading.
‘The Love Song of Miss Queeney
Hennessey’ by Rachel Joyce.
Heart-breaking, touching, tragic and funny in equal measure, that just about sums up ‘The Love Song of Miss Queeney Hennessey’ by Rachel Joyce. It is a truly amazing read. If you have read and loved ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ this is an absolute must. This is not a sequel or a prequel; it is as Rachel Joyce says a companion to Harold Fry’s journey. Bringing Queeney’s story to the forefront, you wait and listen and cry with her as she recalls her memories of how and why she moved away from everything she knew to live in Northumberland. Throughout the book, her memories are punctuated with the progress of Harold Fry’s epic journey from Dorset to Berwick on Tweed to save her. Tissues at the ready.
Blurb taken from Amazon
When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking
the length of England
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.
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.
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It was about three years ago that I read ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ and I absolutely loved it. I don't think I have met a single person who has read it and not enjoyed it, and we all share the same feeling for it.
Blurb taken from Amazon
When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter,
leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk
from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let
alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep
walking. To save someone else's life.
If you haven't already read it, I highly recommend you do.
In fact I highly recommended you read both of the books mentioned above, but read
‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ first.
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Ann E Brockbank is the author of three Cornish Based novels
On a Distant Shore, The Blue Bay Café and Mr de Sousa's Legacy
Available from Amazon and Amazon Kindle
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