Maureen

A Harold Fry Novel

By: Rachel Joyce

Narrated by: Penelope Wilton

“A touching tale about heartbreak and healing . . . If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fryand The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, make time to read this finale to the trilogy.”—Good Housekeeping

Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to save a friend. But the story doesn’t end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.

Only she can finish the journey her husband started.

Maureen and Harold Fry have settled into a quiet life, but when an unexpected message from the North disturbs their peaceful equilibrium, Maureen realizes that it’s now her turn to make a journey. But she is not like her affable, easygoing husband. By turns outspoken, then vulnerable, she struggles to form bonds with the people she meets—and the landscape she crosses has radically changed. Maureen has no sense of what she will find at the end of the road. All she knows is that she has to get there.

A deeply felt, lyrical, and powerful novel, Maureen explores love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves a little better. While this book 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. Like those beloved books, Maureen has all the power and weight of a classic.

Amazing

Few books have moved me the way this book did. It is well written, thoughtful and potent. Rachel Joyce is a fantastic writer and her books never disappoint.

Beautiful story

It’s Maureen’s turn: a moving and sometimes wryly funny story about her trying to come to terms with her loss. Lovely trilogy!

Excellent!

Loved it—in Audible, read by Penelope Wilton. The author so skillfully blends bits of the previous stories to bring the reader back up to speed. It’s been a while since I’d read Queenie’s story, so I needed that!

Maureen is a persnickety character in the other two novels, gruff really. But, in this book, she travels to Queenie’s garden on her own, taking her completely out of her routines, her home and out of her comfort zone, which is truly Harold.

She is searching for David, her son, who is lost in an unimaginable way. In this search, she finds a version of David, but also finds herself and a new way to see her own life and the lives around her. This book was enormously satisfying in its ability to round out all three novels in just what amounted to only three listening hours! And three hours with Penelope Wilton are well spent on any day! ❤️

Poignant

Poignant, wise, well written. Maureen’s final transition through grief is an inspiration. Loved the narrator

Superb

The three Harold Fry novels, of which this is the beautiful conclusion, just might be my favorite books ever.