Finty was my favorite as she takes to Twitter - #Harold Fry, #Queenie Hennessy, #hospice, #respect. The feisty and sometimes potty mouthed Finty, Pearly King, Barbara, Mr. But yet it was delightful to come to know some of Queenie's fellow patients who will make you laugh as well as cry. A dying woman is in hospice writing a letter seeking forgiveness. There should be nothing light about this story. We learn so much about Queenie in her letter - about her childhood, her days at the university where she studied the classics, her losses, her time working with Harold and how she spent her days after leaving, living in a beach house and tending her beloved sea garden. At the same time, that man, Harold Fry is on a walking journey to see her before she dies. Queenie is in a hospice spending her last days writing a letter to a man she worked with at a brewery in an English town. Rachel Joyce in this novel has answered all of the questions I had about Queenie and I now know that she was worth every mile that Harold walked and then some. While I was reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, I often wondered about who Queenie Hennessy really was and why Harold Fry would make a trek walking hundreds of miles to see her before she dies.
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