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Гарольд Фрай, самый обычный человек, который всю жизнь ощущал себя ненужным, лишним, пускается в необычное путешествие. На противоположном конце страны в хосписе его ждет женщина по имени Куини Хеннесси. Мы не знаем, был ли у них роман, но она, одна из немногих, понимала и ценила его. Гарольд верит — пока он идет, преодолевая милю за милей, Куини будет жить. Эта одиссея стала для Гарольда возвращением к себе и — переосмыслением всей его жизни.

Two little boys, dumped with their divorced father for his share of the Christmas holidays and none of them with a clue how to enjoy it.

From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, - soon to be a major movie starring Jim Broadbent - an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.
When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait?
A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harold everything. In confessing to secrets she has hidden for twenty years, she will find atonement for the past. As the volunteer points out, 'Even though you've done your travelling, you're starting a new journey too.'
Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story. She was wrong. It was the beginning.
Told in simple, emotionally-honest prose, with a mischievous bite, this is a novel about the journey we all must take to learn who we are; it is about loving and letting go. And most of all it is about finding joy in unexpected places and at times we least expect.

As read on Radio 4, seven linked stories set in the Christmas holidays - all as funny, joyous, poignant and memorable as Christmas should be:
A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping couldn't feel less like wishing glad tidings to all men. Ducking out of the rain she finds herself in the sort of shop she would never normally visit.
The Marriage Manual: Christmas Eve. Two parents endeavour to construct their son’s Christmas present from a DIY kit and in the process find themselves deconstructing their marriage.
Christmas at the Airport: A glitch in the system, travellers stranded and all sorts of lives colliding in the face of a sudden birth...
The Boxing Day Ball: Maureen has never been out with the local girls before. Who knew that a disco in the Village Hall could be life-changing?
A Snow Garden: Two little boys, dumped with their divorced father for his share of the Christmas holidays and none of them with a clue how to enjoy it.
I'll Be Home for Christmas The most famous boy in the world comes home hoping to escape the madness with a normal family Christmas.
Trees: As if Christmas wasn't wearing enough, now his elderly parent is asking for a hole in the ground … Father and son break old habits and plant a tree to mark the start of the new year.

1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need.
Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann.
Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with her pea-green coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to re-open and a past he will never leave behind ...

Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin ‘Operation Perfect’, a hapless mission to rescue Byron’s mother from impending crisis.
Winter, present day: As frost creeps across the moor, Jim cleans tables in the local cafe, a solitary figure struggling with OCD. His job is a relief from the rituals that govern his nights.
Little would seem to connect them except that two seconds can change everything.
And if your world can be shattered in an instant, can time also put it right?

Десять лет назад Гарольд Фрай отправился в эпическое путешествие, чтобы спасти подругу. Так началась его история.
Теперь свое собственное паломничество предстоит совершить его жене, Морин. После путешествия через всю Англию Морин Фрай поселилась в тихой местности и живёт спокойной жизнью вместе со своим мужем Гарольдом. Десять лет спустя, неожиданное послание с Севера снова нарушает ее жизненный баланс, и на этот раз настала очередь Морин совершить собственное путешествие.
Но Морин не похожа на Гарольда. Она плохо сходится с незнакомцами и слабо представляет себе, что ждет ее в конце пути. Но ей нужно туда добраться любой ценой.
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North – это трогательный, лиричный и сильный роман о любви и потере. Короткий, изысканный, но в то же время трогательный финал трилогии, начавшейся с феноменального бестселлера «Невероятное паломничество Гарольда Фрая» и продолжившейся «Песнь любви мисс Куини Хеннесси».
Книга на английском языке.
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. Short, exquisite, while it stands in its own right, it is also the 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.
This is a slender book but it has all the power and weight of a classic.

Hiljuti pensionile jäänud, malbe loomuga Harold Fry saab ootamatult kirja vanalt sõbrannalt Queenie Hennessylt. Ta pole Queenie´st juba paarkümmend aastat midagi kuulnud. Naine on haige ja ta kirjutab, et Haroldiga hüvasti jätta. Mees ei tea, mida küll Queenie´le vastata, ta läheb korraks õue, et naisele mõeldud kiri posti panna, ent mõtleb käigupealt ümber ja otsustab sõnumi isiklikult 600 miili kaugusele viia. Ta usub, et kuni ta kõnnib, püsib sõbranna elus. Nii asub Harold ilma matkasaabaste, vihmavarju, kaardi ja mobiiltelefonita uskumatule palverännakule läbi Inglismaa. Teel kohtub ta võõrastega, kes äratavad ellu valusaid mälestusi aegadest, mil tema abielu Maureeniga oli alles värske ja paljutõotav kui ka eluperioodist, mil see enam nii ei olnud. Samal ajal ootab aga Haroldi kibestunud abikaasa Maureen oma kaasat koju. Iroonilisel kombel hakkab naine, keda mehe äkiline kadumine vapustab, mehest puudust tundma. Kas Harold ja Maureen suudavad nendevahelise kuristiku ületada? Ja kas Queenie on elus, kui Harold tema juurde jõuab? “Harold Fry uskumatu palverännak” on Briti kirjaniku Rachel Joyce´i esikromaan. Enne seda kirjutas Joyce peamiselt näidendeid raadioteatrile. Ka üdini sümpaatne Harold Fry oli esialgu hoopis ühe Joyce´i raadioteatritüki tegelane. “Harold Fry uskumatut palverännakut” peeti üheks 2012. aasta olulisemaks Briti debüütromaaniks ning see valiti Bookeri auhinna nominentide sekka.