Lynda J R. reviewed on 9/9/2014 + 39 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

This charming, touching book is so easy to identify with. Harold Fry walks out of his house and his lifeless marriage to Maureen one morning to post a letter to Queenie, a former co-worker who is dying of cancer. Before the day is over, he will embark on an unplanned walking trek 600 miles north through the heart of England to see her. He leaves a message at the hospice to say he is coming and she is to wait. Harold feels that as long as he walks, she will live. As he walks, he finds himself reliving his life, remembering things he thought forgotten and regretting so many choices. Each person he meets along the way has a story, and he realizes that everyone is just putting one foot in front of the other. Meanwhile, back home, Maureen slowly has small epiphanies of her own.

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