Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North

Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North
Rachel Joyce
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Hardback
h222 x 156mm - 144pg
20 Oct 2022 UK
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9780857529008
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The final novel in the Harold Fry trilogy, this is a heart-stopping story told from the view point of his wife Maureen as she takes her own journey and discovers how to reconnect with the world. Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn' t end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make. Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she now shares with her husband Harold after his iconic walk across England. Now, ten years later, an unexpected message from the North disturbs her equilibrium again, and this time it is Maureen' s turn to make her own journey. But Maureen is not like Harold. She struggles to bond with strangers, and the landscape she crosses has changed radically. She has little sense of what she' ll find at the end of the road. All she knows is that she must get there. Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North is a deeply felt, lyrical novel, full of warmth and kindness. Short, exquisite, powerful- it is about love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves and our lives a little better.
Rachel Joyce has a genius for creating the most damaged and difficult character and making us care deeply about their redemption. Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North is a powerful finale to her classic trilogy of heartbreak and healing. -- Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures At last it' s Maureen' s turn! It may only have the physical heft of a novella but Rachel Joyce' s angry-sad latest packs the weight of a long marriage into the space of several well ironed handkerchiefs. Just brilliant. -- Patrick Gale Maureen Fry is wonderfully complex, flinty and closed and obsessive yet full of love and concern for others as she navigates her present and her past, carrying her terrible burdens of grief and guilt. Rachel Joyce is deeply attuned to the complex rhythms of life and love and she sublimates this understanding, sentence by delicate, powerful, glistening sentence into an unforgettable story. It' s beautiful all through, but the closing chapters are just astonishing, transcendent and hope-filled and life-affirming. I' ll never forget this wonderful novel or the sunny, slightly teary day I spent reading it. -- Donal Ryan This book is short but very special. As fans of Rachel Joyce might expect, it' s funny, touching and quite beautiful. It' s also packed with wisdom about love and loss - and is sure to provide comfort to anyone who' s known grief. -- Matt Cain, author of The Secreet Life of Albert Entwistle Maureen is so beautifully and unflinchingly portrayed - a complex contradiction of brittle and prickly with an underbelly of fragility and fear. Her journey - both physical and psychological - is compelling and profoundly moving and leaves the reader feeling fully satisfied and just a little lighter. -- Ruth Hogan
Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North completes this trilogy. She is also the author of bestsellers Perfect, The Music Shop, Miss Benson' s Beetle and a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Her books have sold over five million copies worldwide and been translated into thirty-six languages. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It is now a major film starring Jim Broadbent with Penelope Wilton as Maureen. Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards ' New Writer of the Year' in 2012 and shortlisted for the ' UK Author of the Year' award 2014. Rachel lives with her husband Paul and family near Stroud.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780857529008
Published: 20 Oct 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Doubleday
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 156mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 144

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