{"id":1516,"date":"2012-10-16T20:33:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T20:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2015-04-04T20:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:17:41","slug":"the-unlikely-pilgrimage-of-harold-fry-by-rachel-joyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1517\" title=\"The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-Unlikely-Pilgrimage-of-Harold-Fry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the book opens, Harold Fry, a retired man in a cold, strained marriage with Maureen, receives a letter from Queenie Hennessy, a former work colleague.\u00a0 She\u00a0is writing\u00a0to say goodbye &#8212;\u00a0she is in hospice and dying of cancer.\u00a0\u00a0Harold writes a simple note in reply and sets off by foot to post it.\u00a0 However, the first postal box doesn&#8217;t seem right, nor the second, . . . and\u00a0Harold finds himself walking six hundred miles from the south of England to\u00a0Queenie in the north, convinced that somehow his walking will keep her alive.\u00a0 Harold is completely unprepared for the walk, but he feels that it is something he must do, and so he keeps on.\u00a0 Along the way he meets a wildly diverse assortment of individuals, and he ponders his life, remembering the good times of so long ago, as well as the tragedies that followed.\u00a0 Maureen, left at home, also has time to do a lot of thinking.\u00a0 This is ultimately a very hopeful book with a message that it is never too late to seek\u00a0healing for life&#8217;s hurts or to make ammends.\u00a0 Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the book opens, Harold Fry, a retired man in a cold, strained marriage with Maureen, receives a letter from Queenie Hennessy, a former work colleague.\u00a0 She\u00a0is writing\u00a0to say goodbye &#8212;\u00a0she is in hospice and dying of cancer.\u00a0\u00a0Harold writes a simple note in reply and sets off by foot to post it.\u00a0 However, the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}