![]() Queenie has not seen, heard from, or talked to Harold for twenty years, yet her love for him remains undiminished. This secret is one that will mar their relationship and follow her until her death… Queenie never tells Harold that she knows his son. When she accidentally meets his son, David, they strike up a strange acquaintance/friendship. She vowed to love him quietly and keep her love for him to herself so as not to impact on his life with his wife. ![]() Twenty years ago she had worked with and fell in love with a married man, Harold Fry. ![]() She now lives in a Catholic hospice cared for by nursing nuns. Queenie has terminal cancer and can no longer look after herself. Yet it is simultaneously infused with joy. I must warn potential readers that this is a sad, sad story. Also it is the story of a pure and special soul whose dignity in life and in death is unparalleled. It is not a story of unrequited love, rather it is a story of unrealized love. I can’t help thinking of those heart lockets that are in two pieces. ![]() The two novels have a single time frame, so are in fact two halves of a whole. Sure it is the companion of Rachel Joyce‘s bestselling, award-winning “ The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry“, but it is a treasure by itself. Described by the publisher as being the “poignant parallel story to Harold’s saga”, “ The love song of Miss Queenie Hennessy” is a tour de force in it’s own right. ![]()
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