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4.5 Stars
What a beautifully written little novel! It's about faith, self discovery, hope, and bittersweet. Harold Fry receives a letter from an old colleague and friend, Queenie Hennessy, saying she has cancer and is in Hospice. She thanks him for his kindness and is saying good-bye. Harold, being "old English" promptly writes a note back and leaves his house to post his letter. He walks past a mailbox, then another, then more until he encounters a young girl at a garage talking about her aunt ...more
What a beautifully written little novel! It's about faith, self discovery, hope, and bittersweet. Harold Fry receives a letter from an old colleague and friend, Queenie Hennessy, saying she has cancer and is in Hospice. She thanks him for his kindness and is saying good-bye. Harold, being "old English" promptly writes a note back and leaves his house to post his letter. He walks past a mailbox, then another, then more until he encounters a young girl at a garage talking about her aunt ...more
What will be the impetus for a person to shuck all he/she knows and is comfortable with, although not happy with, in order to discover what is really important is his/her life and who he/she really is? For one who is settled, however discontentedly, in life and is well over the wandering age of youth to embark upon the unknown is not the stuff of which self-discovery tales are made. Someone should have told that to Harold Fry, who in his mid-sixties unwittingly sets out on a 600+ mile journey to
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It was a nice quick read. Took a bit to get into but then it became interresting and reminded me a lot of Forrest Gump!
A well written, unlikely tale, with very likable characters.
Oct 27, 2012
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