Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel
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Joyce, Rachel
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Harold Fry novels volume 3
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Random House Publishing Group , 2023.
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“A touching tale about heartbreak and healing . . . If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fryand The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, make time to read this finale to the trilogy.”—Good Housekeeping   Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to save a friend. But the story doesn’t end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make. Only she can finish the journey her husband started.Maureen and Harold Fry have settled into a quiet life, but when an unexpected message from the North disturbs their peaceful equilibrium, Maureen realizes that it’s now her turn to make a journey. But she is not like her affable, easygoing husband. By turns outspoken, then vulnerable, she struggles to form bonds with the people she meets—and the landscape she crosses has radically changed. Maureen has no sense of what she will find at the end of the road. All she knows is that she has to get there.A deeply felt, lyrical, and powerful novel, Maureen explores love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves a little better. While this book stands alone, it is also the extraordinarily moving finale to a trilogy that began with the phenomenal bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and continued in The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Like those beloved books, Maureen has all the power and weight of a classic.

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Format
eBook
Street Date
02/07/2023
Language
English
ISBN
9780593446430
Subjects
Fiction
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Booklist Review

Joyce concludes her beloved Harold Fry trilogy (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012), The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (2015)--by viewing Harold's and Queenie's unconventional relationship through the eyes of Harold's beleaguered wife, Maureen. Years after Harold's journey to visit his dying friend, Queenie, Maureen realizes that, while she may have made reluctant peace with the outcome of Harold's celebrated trek, she has yet to come to grips with the circumstances that provoked it. It has been 30 years since their son David's suicide, an event Queenie memorialized by creating a quirky, internationally renowned garden in his honor. All Maureen has done is redecorate his bedroom. Though Queenie is gone, Maureen feels compelled to replicate Harold's pilgrimage, albeit by car, to witness the tribute to her son. Maureen is a prickly homebody, and willfully seeking spiritual peace is an uncharacteristic act of self-awareness. Still, she embarks with trepidation and a force-field of emotional armor, an unsettled "loose cannon, firing herself in all directions. She was sundered from life, irrevocably and completely. She would never be free." And yet Maureen does find freedom, and Joyce's delectably empathic study of this resolution is handled with gentle good humor and beguiling sensitivity. Like Maureen, Joyce's "Fry" fans will find comforting closure.

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*Starred Review* Joyce concludes her beloved Harold Fry trilogy (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012), The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (2015)—by viewing Harold's and Queenie's unconventional relationship through the eyes of Harold's beleaguered wife, Maureen. Years after Harold's journey to visit his dying friend, Queenie, Maureen realizes that, while she may have made reluctant peace with the outcome of Harold's celebrated trek, she has yet to come to grips with the circumstances that provoked it. It has been 30 years since their son David's suicide, an event Queenie memorialized by creating a quirky, internationally renowned garden in his honor. All Maureen has done is redecorate his bedroom. Though Queenie is gone, Maureen feels compelled to replicate Harold's pilgrimage, albeit by car, to witness the tribute to her son. Maureen is a prickly homebody, and willfully seeking spiritual peace is an uncharacteristic act of self-awareness. Still, she embarks with trepidation and a force-field of emotional armor, an unsettled "loose cannon, firing herself in all directions. She was sundered from life, irrevocably and completely. She would never be free." And yet Maureen does find freedom, and Joyce's delectably empathic study of this resolution is handled with gentle good humor and beguiling sensitivity. Like Maureen, Joyce's "Fry" fans will find comforting closure. Copyright 2023 Booklist Reviews.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Joyce, R. (2023). Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel . Random House Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Joyce, Rachel. 2023. Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Joyce, Rachel. Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel Random House Publishing Group, 2023.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Joyce, R. (2023). Maureen: a harold fry novel. Random House Publishing Group.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Joyce, Rachel. Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel Random House Publishing Group, 2023.

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