![]() ![]() ![]() The author couldn’t have a better narrator than Jim Broadbent. The book is steeped in melancholy, leavened by humorous episodes. It is a deeply moving story that delves deep into human relationships and how resentments and misunderstandings can fester and sour a marriage. It’s a pilgrimage without a religious basis, though there are episodes that remind one of biblical stories and later parts of his journey have echoes of the Canterbury Tales when other ‘pilgrims’ join him. Why he feels he needs to do this isn’t revealed until near the end. On impulse he embarks on a journey on foot from the South West of England to Berwick-on-Tweed in the belief that this will keep his former colleague, now suffering from terminal cancer, alive. I was swept along eagerly wanting to hear how Howard’s journey to save Queenie Hennessy, would end. Thanks to a friend’s recommendation I listened to this exceptional book. ![]()
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