Joyce, a radio-dramatist turned novelist, is less sure-footed when attempting satire, and Harold's run-ins with film stars and assorted media folk are far less elegantly handled than her tender description of the kind Slovakian doctor who tends to Harold or the young girl in the petrol station who inadvertently makes him believe in himself. At one point he attracts a growing band of fellow pilgrims and becomes the centre of a media storm. Some are moved by his act, others bemused. Along the way he encounters many different people. There are Biblical overtones and elements of parable to Harold's story. Joyce's writing is clean and simple, at times deceptively so. Joyce's first novel, it was a long-list finalist (top 12) for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, and Joyce won the UK National Book Award for New Writer of the Year for the book. She remembers her husband as he once was and everything he once meant to her. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a novel by Rachel Joyce, published in 2012. Without maps or waterproofs and only yachting shoes on his feet, he walks and walks, while his wife Maureen waits at home at first she is angered by what she perceives as abandonment but eventually his distance allows her emotions to resurface. He believes that in some way his journey will help his friend to live.

Harold writes a short response back, but when arriving at a post office box to mail it he passes along.

She is dying of cancer and wants to say goodbye, which she does in the letter. Harold Fry, a man retired from work, life, and love, receives a letter from an old friend. When Harold Fry, a timid man in his later years, discovers that a former friend and colleague is seriously ill, he sets out with the intention of posting her a letter but instead embarks on 600-mile walk from Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry starts with a wonderful premise. T his Booker long-listed debut novel begins with the arrival of an unexpected letter and an impulsive act.

The unlikely pilgrimage of harold fry