Rachel Joyce
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Highly recommended for fans of A Man Called Ove or The One-in-a-Million Boy.

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Perfect: A Novel

Perfect: A Novel

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From the publisher's: "As she did in her debut, <em>The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry</em>, Rachel Joyce has imagined bewitching characters who find their ordinary lives unexpectedly thrown into chaos, who learn that there are times when children must become parents to their parents, and who discover that in confronting the hard truths about their pasts, they will forge unexpected relationships that have profound and surprising impacts. Brimming with love, forgiveness, and redemption, Perfect will cement Rachel Joyce’s reputation as one of fiction’s brightest talents."

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Miss Benson’s Beetle

Miss Benson’s Beetle

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From the publisher: "From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an uplifting, irresistible novel about two women on a life-changing adventure, where they must risk everything, break all the rules, and discover their best selves—together. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist—the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany her, the woman she ends up with is the last person she had in mind. Fun-loving Enid Pretty in her tight-fitting pink suit and pom-pom sandals seems to attract trouble wherever she goes. But together these two British women find themselves drawn into a cross-ocean adventure that exceeds all expectations and delivers something neither of them expected to find: the transformative power of friendship."

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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

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From the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes "an exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold's cross-country journey."

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The Music Shop

The Music Shop

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Reviewers use words like "quirky," "happy," and "charmer." Book of the Month describes it like this: "It’s the late 1980s, and Frank Adair, a youngish man who's been damaged in ways that aren’t immediately made clear, owns a record shop on a rundown street in a British suburb. Whenever a customer walks in, Frank can 'hear' exactly what music that person needs. A sad sack demanding only Chopin? Frank says he'll groove to Aretha. ('Who?' asks the sad sack. But as it turns out, Frank's right.) But when a lovely woman named Ilse Brauchmann appears in the shop one day and promptly faints, Frank learns the limits of his gift—he 'hears' nothing from Ilse at all. What follows is a love story wrapped in a mystery. As the story moves forward, flashbacks illuminate both Frank's genius and the reason for his sorrows, and Ilse's secrets are slowly revealed. You’ll finish the book humming everything from Handel's Hallelujah chorus to Nick Drake."

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