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Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North

By: Rachel Joyce
Narrated by: Penelope Wilton
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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.

Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North is a deeply felt, lyrical and powerful novel, full of warmth and kindness, about love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves and our lives a little better. While it stands in its own right, it is also the exquisitely moving finale to a trilogy that began with the phenomenal bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and continued with The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.

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Loved the story and only wished it could have been longer. Wonderful narration. A triumph.

Another beautifully written book by Rachel Joyce

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it's not the strongest in the trio, just like Maureen is not the strongest character, but it was needed just like she is and it was an enjoyable listen.

Very Maureen

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I really loved this book. I’ve read the previous two Harold Fry and Queenie and this was the icing on the cake. I LOVED all three books. Thank you.

I LOVED this book

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I have listened to the whole trilogy over the past ten days. I loved all three. Rachel gets under the skin of outwardly unlikable Maureen and shows her extreme vulnerability with such tenderness. As soon as I saw that Penelope Wilton was the narrator, I relaxed, knowing that she would inhabit her perfectly.

Poignant conclusion

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A stunning book, shorter than the other two but no less engaging or emotional. A wonderful book to finish the series. Truly lovely to see the world from Maureen’s viewpoint. Sublime

A stunning book to end the series

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