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Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North

Harold Fry (Book 3)

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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 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. While it stands in its own right, it is also the exquisitely moving finale to a trilogy that began with the phenomenal bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and continued with The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.

© Rachel Joyce 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

Joyce bestows tenderness and grace, revealing how forgiveness and a reckoning with the past can transform the present for the better.
Mail on Sunday

Joyce is a fearless explorer of emotional landscape; Maureen's pilgrimage north becomes
a moving account of healing and acceptance.

Sunday Times
Exquisite and beautifully crafted
Daily Mail
A beautiful novella ... with compassion and tenderness ... the novel's conclusion is deeply moving and life-affirming.
Observer
Very rarely, there is a writer who can touch the deepest and most hidden parts of the soul, by using the everyday matter of our daily lives to reveal the sacred that always surrounds us. This writer is Rachel Joyce, and her trilogy starting with The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, then The Love Song of Queenie Hennessy and finally Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North does just that, as well as delighting by her assured story-telling. To read her work is to think at first you are being invited to a perfect and delicious afternoon tea - then realise that you are intimate communion with what it means to be human: to suffer, to love, and to be understood. There is beauty, and the reason for art.
Laline Paul
This short novel packs a big punch as Joyce paints an intimate portrait of fragility and grief, allowing us to experience unbearable pain but redemption too.
Daily Express
So beautiful, moving and tender. Rachel Joyce is our own Elizabeth Strout.
Nina Stibbe
This slim novella of barely 150 pages contains a world of emotion ... The kindness of strangers is Joyce's theme, as well as forgiveness and grief. No one writes difficult feelings better.
Daily Mail
Life-affirming. If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, make time to read this finale to the trilogy ... A touching tale about heartbreak and healing.
Good Housekeeping
A gorgeous read.
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User Reviews

Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
Author Rachel Joyce
Narrator Penelope Wilton
Series Harold Fry
Duration 3 hours and 36 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529194357
Format Audiobook
Publisher Transworld
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Availability AU, GB, IE
Rating
5.0 (1 review)
Narration
5.0 (1 review)

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