Maureen - Rachel Joyce
Release Date: February 7, 2023
In an earlier novel, Harold Fry undertook a walk across England. Ten years later, disturbed by some information about a memorial garden, his wife, Maureen, travels a similar route by car. It is not an easy journey for her, as she has become accustomed to a quiet life with her husband and is not the most pleasant or social of women. Yet, she feels this journey may help her find some solace about her son’s suicide which occurred thirty years earlier
This is the third book in a trilogy and it was as distinct disadvantage that I had not read the first two; I kept feeling that I had come in on the third act of a play.
More of a novella, this book poignantly addresses loss and the nature of grief, as well as Maureen’s emotionally painful childhood. Maureen’s tale is both heartbreaking and hopeful. As a standalone, it is a touching story, but I would recommend reading the prior novels before this one.
Thanks to #Netgalley and #RandomHouse #Dialpress for the ARC.
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