• Rachel Joyce

When Harold set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend it was only the beginning of the story.
Ten years later, there's still unfinished business.

Maureen Fry is about to set that straight.

Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she now shares with her husband 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 radically changed. 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 & 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 alone, it is also the extraordinarily moving finale to a trilogy that began with the phenomenal bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and continued in The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.