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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

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While I was reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, I often wondered about who Queenie Hennessy really was and why Harold Fry would make a trek walking hundreds of miles to see her before she dies . Rachel Joyce in this novel has answered all of the questions I had about Queenie and I now know that she was worth every mile that Harold walked and then some . While I was reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, I often wondered about who Queenie Hennessy really was and why Harold Fry would make a trek walking hundreds of miles to see her before she dies. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy is the second in the Harold Fry trilogy. I just now listened to it because Rachel Joyce has written the third book in the series.

In between times, Queenie writes and writes some more. Even when she is fatigued and her hand is sore, she continues to write. Her story unfolds like memories do: sometimes 24 years ago, sometimes 4 years ago, and sometimes even further than 24 years ago. Queenie is writing a very long letter; she is also composing a love song. Queenie also knows that she will not be finished until she has written Harold with all the secrets she has harbored for years. Queenie burns for Harold’s forgiveness for one secret in particular. This was a wonderful book with a lot of everyday wisdom that slips up on you as you read, like this passage: "It has been everywhere, my happiness - when my mother sang for me to dance, when my father took my hand to keep me safe - but it was such a small, plain thing that I mistook it for something ordinary and failed to see. We expect our happiness to come with bells and whistles, but it doesn't." In “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry”, Harold believes that if he walks from his home on the South coast of England to where Queenie Hennessy is in a hospice on the North coast of England, he will be able to save her. And there is a reason he wants to save her. Queenie created her sea garden “to atone for the terrible wrong I had done to a man I loved.” She writes, “Sometimes you have to do something with your pain because otherwise it will swallow you.” Do you feel she shared any blame in David’s suicide? Do you think she should have carried this burden for twenty years? At the coffee table, Finty still scratched away at the foil window on her letter. “Come on, you little bugger,” she grunted.Joyce] manages to both add depth to an already strong work and build something new and beautiful upon it." - The A.V. Club His unlikely pilgrimage captivates the other hospice residents, with whom Queenie - who has kept herself apart since her arrival - slowly makes friends.

MY THOUGHTS: I didn't want this book to end......I quite fell in love with Miss Queenie Hennessey and the other residents of the hospice. Once again Rachel Joyce writes so gripping and moving that you take the charaters to your heart immediately. Buch aktuell, Germany Queenie's Love Song' is as beautiful as it is poignant with several surprises and an ending I didn't expect, so be sure to have the tissue box handy! I loved listening to her heartfelt story and Harold's story in Book #1, but I admit, 'Queenie's Love Song' is my favorite and I highly recommend! Queenie had an unrequited love for Harold Fry the entire time they worked together at the brewery. She left the brewery decades ago and moved to the other end of England. Now, she is dying of cancer. When Harold learns, he begins walking the length of England to see her. The story of that walk encompassed The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Now, we hear from Queenie, as she awaits Harold’s arrival at her hospice. Unable to talk, she writes out her story, basically a confession of the secrets she hid years ago.

That night I barely slept. I had Queenie’s words, her stories, spinning in my head. I didn’t know if any of those words made sense, but I did know that I was at the beginning of something andthat I would have to stay with it and find the whole story. In the morning, when I looked again at The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, it occurred to me that in truth I’d had the idea of writing from Queenie’s perspective long before—­I had written onesmall piece, that taste of her voice, in the Harold Fry chapter “Queenie and the Present.” I’d had the idea and I hadn’t quite seenit. Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story. She was wrong. It was the beginning.

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