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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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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2012 · 2010s
Author
Rachel Joyce
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