the love song of miss queenie hennessy review

He writes a modest note in return and sets off to mail it, but he passes one mailbox after another until he decides he’s going to keep walking and deliver the letter in person. Queenie has reached out to Harold to say goodbye because she’s dying of cancer. She soon left town and now lives on the other side of England, with Harold still unaware of her unrequited love for him, let alone her creation of a sea garden that pays homage to him. They were once close, so close that when Harold went off his head after the death of his son and wrecked his boss’s office, Queenie stepped in and took the blame, saving Harold’s job. The first novel tells the story of Harold Fry, a retired brewery sales rep living a quiet life in a less-than-perfect marriage when he receives a letter from an old colleague and friend, Queenie Hennessy, whom he hasn’t seen in 20 years. The principal characters are the same and the new novel is in many ways another chapter of the story, but it is neither a prequel nor a sequel. So it was no surprise that I picked up Rachel Joyce’s The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, a follow-on to her enchanting best seller of 2012, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. I’ve also been reading a lot of books with older protagonists because my main character is in his seventies. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of sequels, and even a few prequels, because I’m working on a sequel of my own. (Mar.9/7/15 – Rachel Joyce, Harold Fry and Queenie Hennessey A bittersweet final twist is a fitting cap to a tragic, touching tale. Fans of Harold's story will appreciate a chance to meet him again and hear his story from a new angle, and after a slow and slightly confusing start, even newcomers to Queenie and Harold's doomed love story will not be immune to its charms. In the present day, Queenie's fellow patients in the hospice also take up the mantle of waiting for Harold, and some poignant and hilarious new bonds form. We also learn new information about Queenie's secret friendship with Harold's teen son, David the circumstances around David's tragic early death and Queenie's long-hidden feelings for Harold. Through Queenie's flashbacks, we see the beginnings of their friendship when they met as coworkers at the local brewery. As she begins to write in a long letter to Harold, readers see that their unorthodox friendship was far more complicated than Harold may think.

When she receives word that Harold's begun walking the 600 miles to see her, Queenie's apprehensive: they haven't seen each other in 20 years. This novel focuses on the old friend in question: Queenie Hennessy, who's dying of cancer in a hospice in northern England. Joyce's bestselling novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, followed the journey of Harold, a retiree who chose to walk the entire length of England to reunite with an old friend.

The love song of miss queenie hennessy review