6/27/2023 0 Comments The unlikely pilgrimage of harold![]() ![]() Without planning or preparation, he embarks on the title’s “unlikely pilgrimage,” somehow believing that if he can walk the hundreds of miles over the many months it will take him, she will remain alive to welcome him. She is dying from cancer and has written to let him know, to say goodbye. Then, one day, he receives a letter from a female co-worker with whom he had once been close but hasn’t been in contact for 20 years. The title character has recently retired from his office job at a brewery, lives with a wife who hasn’t loved him for decades-since their intelligent, perhaps disturbed son sparked her estrangement from her husband-and appears destined to live his life in everyday limbo until the grave. The debut novel by an award-winning British radio playwright (and actor) offers an allegory that requires many leaps of faith, while straddling the line between the charming and cloying (as well as the comic and melodramatic). ![]() ![]() Those with the patience to accompany the protagonist on this meandering journey will receive an emotional payoff at the end. ![]()
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