The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce. “This is a beautiful book on every level. Harold Fry has lived a measured, meted-out life and in retirement feels...nothing. Until one day he receives a letter from an old colleague who is dying and Harold decides to walk over 400 miles to see her, thinking that his walking will save her life. Like Homer's Odyssey and Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Harold meets all sorts of helpers, companions and challengers on his walk through England. And in the process becomes the man he was meant to be.”
