The Love Song of Queenie Hennessey by Rachel Joyce

This is a companion piece to the Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.  However, while I really liked Pilgrimage, I really didn't like Queenie. The latter included a lot of recap from the first book (about Harold's journey to reach Queenie in her hospice hospital before she died). It also was just a depressing story. Queenie had a sad life of unhappy and unrequited loves, unsatisfying jobs, frequent moves. Then she gets head and neck cancer and can't even talk anymore. In this book, we find out that she had an ongoing relationship (not romantic) with Harold's troubled son, David, that Harold never knew about. Some of the other people at the hospice were colorful characters, but that was about all I can recommend.


If you're going to read only one of these books, go for Pilgrimage.