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A review by sleightoffeet
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
4.0
What a delightful book! I didn’t think I would enjoy it as much as I did!
Harold starts walking to his mailbox to send a letter to an old friend with cancer, but then, on the spot, decides to walk there himself, hundreds of miles, in yacht shoes. Through his ups and downs we learn what has gone wrong in his life, and how he ended up where he is.
There’s a twist at the end that’s becoming a bit of a cliché in a lot of books I read.
Otherwise, it’s a wonderful story, and I will miss reading about Harold every day.
Harold starts walking to his mailbox to send a letter to an old friend with cancer, but then, on the spot, decides to walk there himself, hundreds of miles, in yacht shoes. Through his ups and downs we learn what has gone wrong in his life, and how he ended up where he is.
There’s a twist at the end that’s becoming a bit of a cliché in a lot of books I read.
Spoiler
The pretending someone is alive until the end when we find out they’re not tropeOtherwise, it’s a wonderful story, and I will miss reading about Harold every day.