The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce · 2012
Literary Fiction · ranked #170 in category
Harold Fry, a retired man, sets out to post a letter to a dying old friend and decides instead to walk the 500 miles to visit her, convinced that his walking will keep her alive. Joyce's debut novel is about grief, guilt, the marriages we construct and the pilgrimages we take — alone — to find something we lost long before we started walking.
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