Books by Rachel Joyce
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review 1: Something of a modern day 'Pilgrim's Progress', this book describes the journey of Harold Fry, on an unintended journey - a hike even - to see his old collegue Queenie, who has written to him from the hospice where she is seeing out her days. This journey is intended to bring h...
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review 1: This 'book', only a few pages long, was over almost before it began. I think I started and finished it between the distance of about 10 Tube stations on my commute! I'm sure some will see in it a simple message of hope; of taking comfort in everyday small things; appreciating wha...
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review 1: This book made me go through so many emotions in just a few hours; hope, despair, anger, worry, happiness, sadness, uncertainty. I laughed and I cried and would certainly recommend this to others. It tells the story of 11 year old Byron in 1972 trying to save his other from the c...
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review 1: Thoroughly enjoyed this book which is the parallel story to 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry', telling as it does the tale of Queenie, dying of throat cancer in a hospice in Northumberland, stunned when she hears that Harold has decided to walk the length of the country to ...
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review 1: I am not sure what to make of this story. It needs to sink in. But I suspect it will stick and I'll carry it with me for a long time."We had once what we can never have again. So why, then, do we behave as if everything we have connected with, everything we have blessed with our ...
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review 1: The love song of Miss Queenie Hennessy could be described as a companion novel to the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, as Queenie is the ultimate objective of Harold ' s near 700 mile walk to Northumberland to visit his old work colleague as she ends her days in a hospice run ...