51H2kTC8X8L._SY346_Synopsis: “Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn’t end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.
Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she now shares with her husband Harold after his iconic walk across England. Now, ten years later, an unexpected message from the North disturbs her equilibrium again, and this time it is Maureen’s turn to make her own journey.
But Maureen is not like Harold. She struggles to bond with strangers, and the landscape she crosses has changed radically. She has little sense of what she’ll find at the end of the road. All she knows is that she must get there.
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North is a deeply felt, lyrical and powerful novel, full of warmth and kindness, about love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves and our lives a little better. Short, exquisite, while it stands in its own right, it is also the moving finale to a trilogy that began with the phenomenal bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and continued with The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.
This is a slender book but it has all the power and weight of a classic.“

My Review

As soon as I knew that this book was going to be published I knew I wanted to read or listen to it. I loved both The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Queenie Hennessey on audio and so I definitely needed a copy of this final book in the trilogy.

As the synopsis above states this is Maureen’s story and what a story it is!

I confess that I really didn’t like Maureen in the beginning of the book. She was incredibly rude to everyone she met and very unlikeable. I actually had second thoughts about DNF’ing, she was just so awkward.

However, as I got to know about her past, and all her disappointments I started warming to her. Then suddenly something happened to her and my whole attitude changed. I had sympathy and empathy towards her and I loved what I was reading. 

The story telling and writing was superb, and just like the previous two books in this trilogy it’s a must read and one I will definitely read again.

Highly recommended!