I gave this a 4-star rating but maybe it was a 3.75. I did thoroughly enjoy the story and think I caught on to the son situation pretty early on but was hoping it wasn't true. I'm glad it had a sweet ending. Harold's journey was a lesson in not judging and his insight into his thoughts and fee...
3.5 stars Quotes and spoilers below.********************************************************************************************************************Quotes - memorable concepts from this book'It has been everywhere, my happiness - when my mother sang for me to dance, when my father took my han...
I LOVED "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye" and Rachel Joyce is a brilliant writer. That being said, I did not enjoy this story as much as "Harold Frye". Queenie was a bit of a mystery in the first book and I think I would have preferred she stayed that way. I don't want to give too much ...
Marketed as a Christmas story, I found Christmas to be incidental and that this tale could have been set at any time of year. What I liked about that was that it meant this story didn't fall into the sentimentality that plagues seasonal reads. It was an interesting idea - a woman stops and recou...
At the age of thirty-three, Oliver has no regular habit but this and he adheres to it religiously.“Sod him,” Binny snorts, wading into the stream of Christmas Eve traffic. Despite the High Street billboards and flashing illuminations wishing peace on earth and goodwill to men, she is met with a r...
He slides it carefully from its plastic packaging. Mrs Meade has ordered it from the internet. The velour suit comes with its own white beard, plastic belt and sack. ‘You can’t be serious,’ says Paula. But Mr Meade says he is very serious. Health and Safety are on his case. If Jim wants to keep h...
They had no choice but to make their way along the lanes, though it would add almost an hour to the journey. The land shone icy blue in the moonlight as if the colour had been chilled out of it. Sometimes the girls saw a light in the distance, but mostly it was just dark and cold. There were ten ...