I very much enjoyed the delightful The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce which is set in England. Harold receives a letter from an old friend, Queenie, telling him she has cancer. Without thinking about it, Harold decides to visit her on foot, some 500 kms (or was it miles??) away. During his walk he meets many people and takes their stories on board. The reader learns a lot about Harold and his past, some of which he is not proud of. He leaves his wife Maureen behind sending her postcards and phones her as he walks. It seems it is a journey of redemption as Harold wants to "make right" events that happened 20 years earlier. It is a touching story. My only gripe was discovering a map of his journey at the end of the book (rather than the beginning). Highly recommended. 41/2/5
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