The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry, #2) in Around the World in 80 Books

Jan 28, 2018 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: library, e-audio-hold, on-dj, lib-has-audio, overdrive, 2018

This was a beautiful book, and every bit as good as its predecessor, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry". Until the very end. I don't completely understand how we are supposed to interpret something about the ending, but I don't want to throw spoilers.

Aside from that, though, it was much like Harold Fry, in that it was insightful, and wise. It explores life, death, illness, family, marriage, love, aging, and so much more, in a beautiful way. You will laugh, and you will cry and now I wonder ...more

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Oct 26, 2017 Rachel N. rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-2017, england, death, friendship, love, forgiveness, happiness

The other half of the story started in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Queenie Hennessy is in a hospice and when she's informed Harold is walking the length of England to come see her she starts writing him a letter in which she admits to loving Harold. Queenie was also friends with Harold's son David, something Harold didn't know. The book alternates between Queenie's past and her time at the hospice and the friends she makes there. The book started a bit slow but then I started really l ...more

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Dec 21, 2018 Anna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Ms. Joyce insists that this is not a sequel to her previous book, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, but is a companion volume and I completely agree. This does not follow on from her earlier book but is written from Queenie's perspective as she lies in the hospice awaiting Harold's arrival.

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Jun 24, 2018 Diane rated it it was amazing

This a companion piece to ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Howard Fry’, a Book I just loved. In that book, Harold was walking across England to keep his friend, Queenie (living in hospice)alive. She had to stay alive until he got there. As he walks, he revisits his heretofore unexamined life. He learns much about himself and life. But we don’t really get to know the object of his pilgrimage. That’s this book- Queenie’s side of their friendship, and her story.

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Apr 12, 2015 Stacey rated it really liked it

Charming but tragic other view of the unlikely pilgrimage. It started out rather slowly, but I found myself really enjoying Queenie as the book went on.

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