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The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry (engelsk roman)
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Forfatter: Rachel Joyce
Forlag/Utgover: Doubleday, 2012
Format: Pocket
Antall sider: 297
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a novel by Rachel Joyce, published 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. It was also the best-selling hardback book in the UK from a new novelist in 2012.
A film adaptation of the same name starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton was released in the UK on 28 April 2023.
Harold Fry, 65, has cut the lawn outside his home at Kingsbridge on the south coast of Devon when he receives a letter. A colleague of twenty years ago, Queenie Hennessy, has cancer and is in a hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed. The doctors say there is nothing more that can be done for her. 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. He phones the hospice from a call box and leaves a message. He is coming and she should wait, stay alive while he makes the journey. A girl at the petrol filling station where he stops for a snack says something that acts as a catalyst for his nascent project. He tells her he is on foot, posting a letter to someone with cancer. 'If you have faith you can do anything’ she replies, but quickly disclaims any religious reference.
As he begins the walk—which in 87 days will cover 627 miles—he reflects. About his marriage, his former employment as a brewery representative, about his son David, from whom he is almost completely estranged. From stopping places he sends postcards, to his wife Maureen, to Queenie, and to the unnamed girl at the filling station who gave him inspiration for his journey.
''Impossible to put down'' TIMES
''Life-affirming delight. A comic pleasure'' WOMAN AND HOME
''Profoundly moving'' RICHARD MADELEY
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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
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