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|title=The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

|sort=Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The

|publisher=Doubleday

|date=October 2014

|website=http://www.rachel-joyce.co.uk/

|video=Vl-0qJVykH8

|summary=Not a ''Harold Fry'' prequel or sequel but a parallel story, told as an extended deathbed letter from Queenie as she waits for Harold to arrive. The humour-tinged hardship of hospice life alternates with touching vignettes from her past. Better than the original.

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Rachel Joyce envisions ''The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy'' not as a prequel or sequel to [[The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce|The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry]] but as a companion volume. Giving Queenie's side of the story through an extended letter she is writing to Harold from St Bernadine's hospice as she awaits his arrival, Joyce gives readers a new perspective on her character's unrequited love for Harold, a surprising friendship she kept up with his son David until his suicide, and her sudden move from Devon to Northumbria, where she lived in a quaint beachside cottage and maintained her sea garden until she became ill with cancer.

Queenie declares, 'My life has been small, it has been nothing to speak of. But the past is still inside me, Harold. I have never let it go.' It is a privilege to hear it here.

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