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Tender novel reflects the human spirit

BRITISH novelist Rachel Joyce’s new novel “The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy” is a curiously inspiring story set in a hospice.

The two main characters first appeared in Joyce’s bestselling novel “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,” about a man who walks for weeks across England to see an old friend who is dying of cancer, Queenie Hennessy. In the latest novel, their friendship is seen through the eyes of Queenie as she looks back at life.

It is a moving tale of loneliness, loss and acceptance, and although the setting seems bleak there is an affectionate warmth and humor in the prose.

Queenie has held a torch for Harold, an old work colleague, for more than 40 years, unbeknown to him.

A wise, tender, layered novel that gathers tremendous emotional force, “The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy” underscores the resilience of the human spirit, illuminating the pivotal moments that can change a person’s life.


 

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