"The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce ****

• Audiobook
• English author
• Originally published 2012
• Setting:  English village and English countryside
• Harold finds out an old friend and begins to walk to see her in hospice care, believing in walking there he may save her
• Review:   What exactly is a pilgrimage?  Merriam-Webster says, "a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion".  Well, in this quiet, lovely tale, Harold Fry inadvertently embarks on one and the reader walks along with him.  So begins a journey of the body, of memory, of marriage, of loss, of spirit.  The reader accompanies Harold as he journeys many miles and deeply within himself. I suppose it is best to describe this as a coming of age story, although not in the traditional sense of a young person becoming an adult, but in the sense of an adult seeking to accept the next and final stage of his own life.  Again, it is a quiet tale.  Enjoy the journey!