The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Unforgettable

A pilgrimage is a mission to gain moral or spiritual significance.  Harold Fry is just an ordinary guy whose life somehow has gone awry.  Harold is adjusting to retirement from the same job he held for his entire adult life.  His long loveless marriage to Maureen is exhausting.  Harold is friendless, his only son David has abandoned him and he is adrift in a malaise of loneliness.  When Harold receives a note from an old colleague "that would change everything."  Queenie, an old colleague wrote informing him she is dying and wished to say good-bye.  Without premeditation or a plan, Harold sets out to mail Queenie a letter and ends up determined to walk the 600 miles to her believing that his walk will save her.  Perhaps this may deter you from Rachel Joyce's novel.  This would be a travesty.  Bear with the initial vapid "Forest Gump" character whose naivety is at first grating & preposterous.  His journey along sets him free to ponder the mysteries of life and reexamine his own.  Living takes putting one foot in front of the other "but, it never ceases to amaze how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are."  Trust this unlikely beginning transcends & marvels the reader.  "What the world needs is a little less sense, and a little more faith."