Maureen is no tiptoe through the tulips, waving at butterflies type of woman. So sadly, I couldn't leave Harold and Maureen living happily ever after with their neighbor, Rex, because along comes the third book in the series, entitled Maureen. But really, Maureen's brain and heart were brewing discontent, with no way that she could see to relieve it, other than sometimes erupting in anger at those around her. Maureen even went through some major steps to attempt closure concerning the suicide of their son, David, thirty years ago.
She did in a way, she knew she was glad to have Harold with her even if his time is spent peacefully playing games or looking at nature with their neighbor, Rex. Maureen (A Harold Fry Novel) by Rachel JoyceĪfter Harold Fry's journey, which takes place at the same time as Queenie's journey, I thought Harold's wife, Maureen, had reached her own better emotional place. What was started by Harold, only Maureen can complete. While it 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. Maureen is a deeply felt, lyrical, and powerful novel, full of warmth and kindness, about love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves and our lives a little better. All she knows is that she has to get there.
And Maureen has no sense of what she will find at the end of the road. By turns outspoken, then vulnerable, she struggles to form bonds with the people she meets, and the landscape she crosses has radically changed.
When an unexpected message from the North disturbs her equilibrium again, it is now her turn to make a journey. Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she shares with her husband after his iconic walk across England ten years ago. Now undertaking her own journey, Maureen will discover a way to reconnect with the world she’s closed a door on. From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from the point of view of Harold’s wife Maureen.
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