Maureen Fry and The Angel of The North By Rachel Joyce
My Rating ★★★★★
Goodreads: 3.96/5
Genre: Women’s Literary Fiction
Maureen Fry and The Angel of The North was first published in 2022. The finale to a moving trilogy.
Synopsis
Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on
foot to save a friend. But the story doesn’t end there.
Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.
Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she now shares with her husband
Harold after his iconic walk across England. Now, ten years later, an
unexpected message from the North disturbs her equilibrium again, and this time
it is Maureen’s turn to make her own journey.
But Maureen is not like Harold. She struggles to bond with strangers, and the
landscape she crosses has changed radically. She has little sense of what
she’ll find at the end of the road. All she knows is that she must get there.
My Review
I was gifted this book for Christmas and having read, The Unlikely
Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Henessy I was
excited to get started on Maureen’s journey.
At first as I started reading all I could see was a
difficult, angry, rude women and quite frankly I did not like her. She was the
total opposite to Harold and I did wonder if she would complete her journey. As
the book progressed, I softened to Maureen, as her loss and unhappiness were exposed
and I found myself hoping that she finds a way to get some closure and manages to find
herself – I believe she did.
This book although short was packed full with emotion, from grief
and guilt and all the suffering that can come from it to friendship and love.
It certainly highlighted for me, that we should not judge a book by its cover as
we don’t know what that person is going through on the inside.
If you have stumbled across Maureen Fry and think mmm I
fancy a read, don’t bother until you have read the first two. I do not think
you would have a clue what was going on if you read it as a stand alone novel
but as part of the Trilogy I works perfectly.
I found it a very enjoyable but moving read, thank you Rachel Joyce for taking us on
Maureen’s Journey – I did not even realise that I needed this book!
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