The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry

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Title:

The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Author:

Joyce, Rachel.

ISBN:

9780552778091

Personal Author:

Joyce, Rachel.

Publication Information:

London : Black Swan, 2013.

Physical Description:

364 p. : map ; 20 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2012.

Abstract:

When Harold Fry leaves home one morning to post a letter, with 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.

Subject Term:

Walking -- Fiction.

Men -- Great Britain -- Fiction.

Adventure stories.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- Fiction.

Genre:

Humorous fiction.

Copies:

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Summary

'Impossible to put down' TIMES
'Life-affirming delight. A comic pleasure' WOMAN AND HOME
'Profoundly moving' RICHARD MADELEY

OVER 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD. NOW A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING JIM BROADBENT AND PENELOPE WILTON
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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.

Harold Fry is the most ordinary of men. He just might be a hero for us all.

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'A gorgeously hopeful book' OPRAH MAGAZINE

' A funny book, a wise book, a charming book . . . Harold Fry is just wonderful ... I love this book ' ERICA WAGNER, THE TIMES

'The odyssey of a simple man, original, subtle and touching' CLAIRE TOMALIN

' One of the sweetest, most delicately-written stories I've read in a long time. One man's walk along the length of England to save the life of a dying woman . . . Philosophical, intriguing, and profoundly moving' RICHARD MADELEY

' Full of heart, laced through with wry wit. I loved Harold and Maureen and their separate journeys . . . A celebration of being alive, being human. Beautiful! ' NIAMH CUSACK

'Tender and funny, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry shows that even our frailties can be uplifting and redemptive' EDWARD STOURTON

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THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY is the first of three novels about Harold Fry. If you love this novel, you will also enjoy THE LOVE SONG OF MISS QUEENIE HENNESSY and MAUREEN FRY AND THE ANGEL OF THE NORTH.
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