Barrett Booknotes -- We've Discovered a Great Debut Novel

Here at Barrett Bookstore, we’ve recently discovered a delightful new debut novel that we can’t wait to share with our customers. It’s called “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” by Rachel Joyce and we love this book so much we want to share it, so we’re offering 20 percent off! It’s a great summer read and the perfect choice for book club. Here’s what Shiela Daley, the owner of Barrett Bookstore, has to say about it:

I loved this book about an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey.  Now retired and trapped in a bleak marriage, Harold gets word that a co-worker is dying, a woman who once saved his job by an act of kindness he never acknowledged.  Spontaneously, he decides to walk to the north of England to see Queenie before she dies.  Along the way,  and it’s a long way,  627 miles long, the reader accompanies him as he struggles  to come to terms with his life and complete his quest.   Poignant, wise and funny, this wonderful novel shows how the past informs the present and how love can be rekindled even under the most dire conditions.