Showing posts with label pilgrimage. Show all posts
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Monday, March 18, 2013

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - a beautiful little book... #FavoriteBooks #Books #GoodReads

I just finished reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce, and what a wonderful, beautiful, gentle book this is.  I just loved it.  So gentle, so kind, so insightful.  I was up all night reading it! lol!   You know when you find a book you don't want to put down, you really need and want to know what's going to happen with the characters?  Well, you'll get that caught up with Harold, who sets off on a modern-day pilgrimage to save the life of his long lost friend, Queenie Hennessy, who is struggling with cancer.

There is a bit in the book where it really sounds like the changes that have happened over the many, many years of the Church... you'll see it when you read it - it's really subtle, but what a great book for a Book Club, or to study at school... just so lovely, so magical at bits, with so much human empathy... really, I can't say enough good things about The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry : )

This is such a heart warming, and heart wrenching, story... you'll love all the twists and turns on the road, and in the story, of Harold Fry's journey, and a true journey it is. Absolutely beautiful, a must read.  Harold's wife, Maureen, their son, David, and their neighbor, Rex, and all the characters (in the true sense of the word) Harold meets along his path - they're a very interesting lot, and you'll come away with a great feeling in your heart for the humanity of all these people.

I highly recommend this beautiful book, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - you'll love it.

Your Friend in Great Books,

Ailsa  : )