Maureen Fry And The Angel Of The North

Rachel Joyce

Doubleday £14,99 The trilogy that began with The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry concludes with his wife Maureen’s story. Maureen has never got over the suicide of her son. Ten years after Harold’s epic walk, she sets off on her own quest in search of a sculpture of her child in a memorial garden. It is a difficult journey for a difficult character, but Joyce bestows tenderness and grace, revealing how forgiveness and a reckoning with the past can transform the present for the better.

Eithne Farry