"And without his mobile phone, and wearing completely inappropriate shoes, and just with a light waterproof jacket," Joyce says. and just keeps walking, north to Berwick-upon-Tweed on the Scottish border. Harold originally intends only to mail a letter to his friend, but he walks past the mailbox. The unlikely pilgrimage is also utterly spontaneous. "He decides that in order to try and keep a friend alive, which is of course a very unlikely thing for her to do, he too must do something unlikely and extraordinary." Harold's pilgrimage is unlikely "in that this is a man who's only ever walked to the car," Joyce tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. It's a old-fashioned pilgrimage: He walks all the way, talking to the people he meets, on his way to the bedside of his old friend Queenie, who is dying. Rachel Joyce's novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is about a man who very suddenly, with no warning or planning, sets off on a pilgrimage from the very southernmost part of England to the very northernmost part. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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