![]() Bernadine’s Hospice in the North of England. Queenie’s unrequited love serves as the major motivation for her life’s most important decisions. It is why Queenie decides to help Harold’s severely depressed son without telling him and it is the reason she takes the blame for Harold when he trashes the brewery after his son’s suicide. Ultimately, Queenie’s inability to confess her love for Harold forces her to quit her job, which she found fulfilling and flee to the other end of England to start life anew, far from Harold Fry.Īt the hospice, Queenie spends her day surrounded by compassionate nuns and caring volunteers, who provide encouragement, support and excellent medical care. The story weaves back and forth between Queenie’s life as a young woman working in a Kingsbridge brewery, whose undeclared love for her boss, Harold Fry, provides both pain and pleasure, and her current life at St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, a sequel of sorts to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, was an interesting yet somewhat disappointing read. Although not technically a sequel, as both books chronicle the same time period and detail Queenie and Harold’s relationship, this book admirably tells the story from Queenie’s point of view. Author Rachel Joyce’s lyrical prose paint a clear picture of a young woman whose past romantic experiences have left her thinking that she is not worthy of true love and that sometimes “good is good enough.” ![]()
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