She also became friends with Harold’s son and this is the part that she’s been hiding from Harold, that she’s dreading telling him about. We find out more about Queenie: how she came to find herself living in Knightsbridge and working with Harold how she protected his job and how she found herself falling in love with him.
A volunteer at the hospice suggests that she writes to Harold, that she tell him the whole story. She doesn’t want to see him until she can unburden herself. But she’s worried about seeing him because she never told him the whole truth about herself. She only has to wait for him to walk to her and she will get to see him again. And then she hears that he’s coming to her. She has sent Harold a letter to tell him that she’s dying. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy starts with Queenie moving to a palliative care home in the final stages of her illness. A slow, wasting illness? No thanks.īut ultimately, the pull of a possibility of answers was too great and I dove into The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Unexpected death? Cruel ones even? I’m down. Did I want to read this? Did I want to go back down this road only to find that I had more questions? I’m also usually really hesitant to read books about illness and death that way. So when I saw that there was a companion book to Harold Fry, I was initially sceptical about reading it. You see, once Harold Fry gets to where he’s going, there are no answers to be found. It was a heartwarming story, one that was hopeful and sad and frustrating and sweet and honest and ultimately left me with some questions. And most of all it is about finding joy in unexpected places and at times we least expect.Full disclosure: I received a copy of this book from Penguin Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review.Ī year or so ago, my book club picked The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. 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. Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story. As the volunteer points out, 'Even though you've done your travelling, you're starting a new journey too.' In confessing to secrets she has hidden for twenty years, she will find atonement for the past.
How can she wait?Ī new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again only this time she must tell Harold everything. 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. Print The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessyįrom the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.
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