Friday, November 30, 2012

Miss Buncle Married

Miss Buncle
Miss Buncle Married
D.E. Stevenson (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars(6)

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A Marriage and a Sudden Move to a New Town Won't Slow This Mischievous Writer Down!

Barbara Buncle: bestselling novelist, new wife...new neighbor?

In this charming follow-up to Miss Buncle's Book, the intrepid writer moves to a new town filled with fascinating folks...who don't even know they might become the subjects of her next bestselling book.

Miss Buncle may have settled down, but she has already discovered that married life can't do a thing to prevent her from getting into humorous mix-ups and hilarious hijinks.

A beloved author who has sold more than seven million books, D. E. Stevenson is at her best with the stories of Miss Buncle.

"Completely charming."

"And funny, in a way that's intelligent without being difficult and cozy without turning sticky-sweet."—Reader Review for the Miss Buncle books

  • Rank: #17108 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2012-11-06
  • Released on: 2012-11-06
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Can You Keep a Secret

Can You
Can You Keep a Secret?
Sophie Kinsella (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars(734)

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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sophie Kinsella's I've Got Your Number.

With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:

Secrets from her mother:
I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.
Sammy the goldfish in my parents’ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.

Secrets from her boyfriend:
I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.
I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.

From her colleagues:
When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.

Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world:
My G-string is hurting me.
I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.

Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.

But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from
the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse—Until they do.

  • Rank: #3504 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2004-03-23
  • Released on: 2004-03-23
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Wedding Night: A Novel

Wedding Night
Wedding Night: A Novel
Sophie Kinsella (Author)

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The new novel from #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella!
 
Lottie is tired of long-term boyfriends who don’t want to commit to marriage. When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. There will be no dates and no engagement—just a straight wedding march to the altar! Next comes the honeymoon on the Greek island where they first met. But not everyone is thrilled with Lottie and Ben’s rushed marriage, and family and friends are determined to intervene. Will Lottie and Ben have a wedding night to remember or one to forget?

  • Rank: #9151 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-05-07
  • Released on: 2013-05-07
  • Number of items: 1

The Head of Kay's (The Collector's Wodehouse)

The Head
The Head of Kay's (The Collector's Wodehouse)
by P.G. Wodehouse
Release Date: November 8, 2012

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P.G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master’s work ever published— beautifully designed and faithful to the original.

This season, Overlook is pleased to offer The Head of Kay’s, a school story.

  • Rank: #40539 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-11-08
  • Released on: 2012-11-08
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .80" h x 5.30" w x 7.30" l, .55 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 176 pages

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: A Novel (Random House Movie Tie-In Books)

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: A Novel (Random House Movie Tie-In Books)
by Deborah Moggach
4.0 out of 5 stars(139)

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Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Billy Nighy, and Dev Patel
 
When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisiticated hotel has stalled, and that such amenities as water and electricity are . . . infrequent. But what their new life lacks in luxury, they come to find, it’s plentiful in adventure, stunning beauty, and unexpected love.

  • Rank: #11492 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-03-13
  • Released on: 2012-03-13
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 7.98" h x .73" w x 5.16" l, .56 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 336 pages

The Casual Vacancy

The Casual
The Casual Vacancy
by J. K. Rowling, Tom Hollander
2.9 out of 5 stars(1995)

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When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.

  • Rank: #6606 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-09-27
  • Released on: 2012-09-27
  • Formats: Audiobook, Unabridged
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 15
  • Running time: 1080 minutes
  • Binding: Audio CD

Snuff: A Novel of Discworld

Snuff
Snuff: A Novel of Discworld
by Terry Pratchett
4.0 out of 5 stars(222)
Release Date: December 26, 2012

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At long last, Lady Sybil has lured her husband, Sam Vimes, on a well-deserved holiday away from the crime and grime of Ankh-Morpork. But for the commander of the City Watch, a vacation in the country is anything but relaxing. The balls, the teas, the muck—not to mention all that fresh air and birdsong—are more than a bit taxing on a cynical city-born and -bred copper.

Yet a policeman will find a crime anywhere if he decides to look hard enough, and it's not long before a body is discovered, and Sam—out of his jurisdiction, out of his element, and out of bacon sandwiches (thanks to his well-meaning wife)—must rely on his instincts, guile, and street smarts to see justice done. As he sets off on the chase, though, he must remember to watch where he steps. . . . This is the countryside, after all, and the streets most definitely are not paved with gold.

  • Rank: #25217 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-12-26
  • Released on: 2012-12-26
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Mass Market Paperback
  • 480 pages

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

F for Effort: More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers

F for Effort
F for Effort: More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
by Richard Benson
4.7 out of 5 stars(3)

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From the author of the national bestseller F in Exams comes a brand new compendium of hilarious and inventive wrong test answers and homework hiccups. Featuring gems from elementary school ("two halves make a whale"), middle grades (Q: What does "germinate" mean? A: To become a German citizen), and high school (Q: Fossil fuels are usually associated with which major type of rock? A: Classic rock), these 250 examples of creative invention are sure to charm anyone who has had to bluff or blunder their way through a test.

  • Rank: #765 in Books
  • Brand: Chronicle Books
  • Published on: 2012-07-11
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .37" h x 5.03" w x 7.42" l, .39 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages

Company for Henry

Company for
Company for Henry
by P.G. Wodehouse
Release Date: November 8, 2012

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P.G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master’s work ever published— beautifully designed and faithful to the original.

This season, Overlook is pleased to offer Company for Henry, a comedy of family romance.

  • Rank: #55295 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-11-08
  • Released on: 2012-11-08
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 1.10" h x 4.80" w x 7.40" l, .65 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 208 pages

Monday, November 26, 2012

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Ultimate
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman
4.7 out of 5 stars(660)

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At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchiker series.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.

Life, the Universe and Everything
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky– so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality. So to speak.

Mostly Harmless
Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?

  • Rank: #1286 in Books
  • Published on: 2002-04-30
  • Released on: 2002-04-30
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.41" w x 6.11" l, 1.80 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 832 pages

Care of Wooden Floors

Care of
Care of Wooden Floors
Will Wiles (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars(37)

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A British copywriter house-sits at his composer friend Oskar’s ultra-modern apartment in a glum Eastern European city. The instructions are simple: Feed the cats, don’t touch the piano, and make sure nothing damages the priceless wooden floors. Content for the first time in ages, he accidentally spills some wine. The apartment and the narrator’s sanity gradually fall apart in this unusual and satisfying novel.Oskar has left several notes for his friend, gently instructing him in the proper maintenance of the flat. But over the course of one disastrous week, as the situation in (and out) of the apartment spirals out of control, the notes take on a more insistent—and creepily prescient—tone.Anyone who has ever felt inferior to a perfectionist friend will sympathize with the narrator’s plight. Wiles is a genuinely funny comic novelist in the tradition of those two earlier British W’s, Wodehouse and Waugh.

  • Rank: #2625 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2012-10-09
  • Released on: 2012-10-09
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Friday, November 16, 2012

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
3.2 out of 5 stars(628)

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
 
So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you’d actually want to read.

  • Rank: #7819 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-04-04
  • Released on: 2009-03-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 7.91" h x .75" w x 5.35" l, .66 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 320 pages

Animal Farm: Centennial Edition

Animal Farm
Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell, Ann Patchett
4.5 out of 5 stars(1393)

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As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization; and in our most charismatic leaders, the souls of our cruelest oppressors.

  • Rank: #20283 in Books
  • Published on: 2003-05-06
  • Released on: 2003-05-06
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .50" h x 5.50" w x 8.10" l, .30 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages

Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk

The Patrick Melrose Novels
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
by Edward St. Aubyn
3.7 out of 5 stars(35)

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For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This single volume collects the first four novels---Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk, a Man Booker finalist---to coincide with the publication of At Last, the final installment of this unique novel cycle.

By turns harrowing and hilarious, these beautifully written novels dissect the English upper class as we follow Patrick Melrose’s story from child abuse to heroin addiction and recovery. Never Mind, the first novel, unfolds over a day and an evening at the family’s chateaux in the south of France, where the sadistic and terrifying figure of David Melrose dominates the lives of his five-year-old son, Patrick, and his rich and unhappy American mother, Eleanor. From abuse to addiction, the second novel, Bad News opens as the twenty-two-year-old Patrick sets off to collect his father’s ashes from New York, where he will spend a drug-crazed twenty-four hours. And back in England, the third novel, Some Hope, offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery. The fourth novel, the Booker-shortlisted Mother’s Milk, returns to the family chateau, where Patrick, now married and a father himself, struggles with child rearing, adultery, his mother’s desire for assisted suicide, and the loss of the family home to a New Age foundation.

Edward St. Aubyn offers a window into a world of utter decadence, amorality, greed, snobbery, and cruelty---welcome to the declining British aristocracy.
  • Rank: #3418 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-01-31
  • Released on: 2012-01-31
  • Format: Deckle Edge
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 1.60" h x 5.90" w x 8.30" l, 1.20 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 688 pages

Snuff: A Novel of Discworld (Discworld Novels)

Snuff
Snuff: A Novel of Discworld (Discworld Novels)
by Terry Pratchett
4.0 out of 5 stars(221)

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For nearly three decades, Terry Pratchett has enthralled millions of fans worldwide with his irreverent, wonderfully funny satires set in the fabulously imaginative Discworld, a universe remarkably similar to our own. From sports to religion, politics to education, science to capitalism, and everything in between, Pratchett has skewered sacred cows with both laughter and wisdom, and exposed our warts, foibles, and eccentricities in a unique, entertaining, and ultimately serious way.

At long last, Lady Sybil has lured her husband, Sam Vimes, on a well-deserved holiday away from the crime and grime of Ankh-Morpork. But for the commander of the City Watch, a vacation in the country is anything but relaxing. The balls, the teas, the muck—not to mention all that fresh air and birdsong—are more than a bit taxing on a cynical city-born and -bred copper.

Yet a policeman will find a crime anywhere if he decides to look hard enough, and it’s not long before a body is discovered, and Sam—out of his jurisdiction, out of his element, and out of bacon sandwiches (thanks to his well-meaning wife)—must rely on his instincts, guile, and street smarts to see justice done. As he sets off on the chase, though, he must remember to watch where he steps. . . . This is the countryside, after all, and the streets most definitely are not paved with gold.

Hailed as the “purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse” (Washington Post Book World), with a “satirist’s instinct for the absurd and a cartoonist’s eye for the telling detail” (Daily Telegraph, London), Terry Pratchett offers a novel of crime, class, prejudice, and punishment that shows this master at his dazzling best.

  • Rank: #14724 in Books
  • Published on: 2011-10-11
  • Released on: 2011-10-11
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 1.30" h x 6.40" w x 9.10" l, 1.30 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 416 pages

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (13)

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (13)
by Alexander McCall Smith
4.5 out of 5 stars(116)

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THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 13

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective.  In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, and good humor—not to mention help from her loyal assistant, Grace Makutsi, and the occasional cup of tea.
 
Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a repeated dream: a vision of a tall, strange man who waits for her beneath an acacia tree. Odd as this is, she’s far too busy to worry about it. The best apprentice at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors is in trouble with the law and stuck with the worst lawyer in Gaborone. Grace Makutsi and Phuti Radiphuti are building the house of their dreams, but their builder is not completely on the up and up. And, most shockingly, Mma Potokwane, defender of Botswana’s weak and downtrodden, has been dismissed from her post as matron at the orphan farm. Can the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency help restore the beloved matron to her rightful position?
 
As wealthy and powerful influences at the orphan farm become allied against their friend, help arrives from an unexpected visitor: the tall stranger from Mma Ramotswe’s dreams, who turns out to be none other than the estimable Clovis Andersen, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ prized manual, The Principles of Private Detection. Together, Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi, and their teacher-turned-colleague help right this injustice and in the process discover something new about being a good detective.

  • Rank: #2659 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-04-03
  • Released on: 2012-04-03
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.06" w x 6.39" l, 1.15 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 272 pages

F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers

F in Exams
F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
by Richard Benson
4.3 out of 5 stars(53)

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"F" stands for "funny" in this perfect gift for students or anyone who has ever had to struggle through a test and needs a good laugh. Celebrating the creative side of failure in a way we can all relate to, F in Exams gathers the most hilarious and inventive test answers provided by students who, faced with a question they have no hope of getting right, decide to have a little fun instead. Whether in science (Q: What is the highest frequency noise that a human can register? A: Mariah Carey), the humanities (Q: What did Mahatma Gandhi and Genghis Khan have in common? A: Unusual names), math, or other subjects, these 250 entries prove that while everyone enjoys the spectacle of failure, it's even sweeter to see a FAIL turn into a WIN.

  • Rank: #567 in Books
  • Brand: Chronicle Books
  • Published on: 2011-02-23
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .60" h x 5.00" w x 6.90" l, .42 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages
  • F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
  • Includes: One "F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers" Book.
  • Richard Benson is the author of several humor books. He lives in London.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
Rachel Joyce (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars(313)

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Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn’t seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye.
 
Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage at the heart of Rachel Joyce’s remarkable debut. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live.
 
Still in his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold embarks on his urgent quest across the countryside. Along the way he meets one fascinating character after another, each of whom unlocks his long-dormant spirit and sense of promise. Memories of his first dance with Maureen, his wedding day, his joy in fatherhood, come rushing back to him—allowing him to also reconcile the losses and the regrets. As for Maureen, she finds herself missing Harold for the first time in years.
 
And then there is the unfinished business with Queenie Hennessy.
 
A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise—and utterly irresistible—storyteller.

  • Rank: #745 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2012-07-24
  • Released on: 2012-07-24
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1