He is coming and she should wait, stay alive while he makes the journey. He phones the hospice from a call box and leaves a message. He writes her a feeble and brief note and goes to post it, has second thoughts, and walks to the next post box, and the next. The doctors say there is nothing more that can be done for her. A colleague of twenty years ago, Queenie Hennessy, has cancer and is in a hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Harold Fry, 65, has cut the lawn outside his home at Kingsbridge on the south coast of Devon when he receives a letter. Ī film adaptation of the same name starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton was released in the UK on 28 April 2023. It was also the best-selling hardback book in the UK from a new novelist in 2012. Joyce's first novel, it was a long-list finalist (top 12) for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, and Joyce won the UK National Book Award for New Writer of the Year for the book. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a novel by Rachel Joyce, published in 2012.
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