![]() ![]() ![]() Finty has such a great sense of humor and Mr Henderson’s development throughout the book is wonderful to witness. I particularly like Finty and Mr Henderson who couldn’t be more different. The real stars of this novel are Queenie’s fellow residents at the hospice. She is, however, a rather bland person who seems to have given up on life as soon as Harold wasn’t part of it anymore. While Queenie is reserved towards the other residents at the hospice at first, she opens up to them after a while. The drawing in the back of the book doesn’t do it justice at all. In my opinion, Queenie’s description of the sea garden is the most powerful picture Rachel Joyce creates in the whole novel. ![]() ![]() She remembers the life she had and looks back on the beloved sea garden she built herself. Queenie starts to write another letter to tell him all the things left unsaid. Queenie Hennessy has just moved into a hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed when a farewell letter to her old friend Harold Fry makes him walk hundreds of miles to meet her one last time. As I got the chance to read Queenie in a Lovelybooks reader’s circle organized by Penguin Random House UK and I never was that interested in Harold’s story, I just skipped Harold Fry. Some advised me against doing so, while others said it would be perfectly okay to read Queenie on its own. Last week, I finished reading Rachel Joyce‘s latest novel The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy and I did this without having read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry first. ![]()
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