The love song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
By: Rachel Joyce
Publisher: Bond Street Books, Doubleday Canada
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780385682824
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Older women; Letters; Reminiscing in old age; Cancer; Patients; Fiction; Terminally ill; Last letters before death
Description: When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harold everything. In confessing to secrets she has hidden for twenty years, she will find atonement for the past. As the volunteer points out, 'Even though you've done your travelling, you're starting a new journey too. Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story. She was wrong. It was the beginning.
Notes: Issued also in electronic format.