introduce a book"The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry" The book by Rachel Joyce published in 2012. It was a best-seller at that time. It is a story about an old man who walks to visit his friend, a dying woman. 627 miles, 87 days. He crosses the whole England, it is approximately equal to the distance between Hebei province and Shanghai in China. He thinks if he is coming, his friend should stay alive to wait for him. He wants saving her in this way. He also thinks a lot of things about his life. During this trip he changes his attitude toward life from negative to positive, he begins to cherish everyone and everything he loves, he also tries to accept himself, a cowardly person. Harold Fry, recently he is retired. No promotion, no friends, no enemy in his life for the past years. He lives in a small village with his wife, Maureen. He has poor relationship with his wife, a lot of things in their life she doesn’t agree with him. And she also complains that Harold didn’t place more value on their son Davie, so that Davie lost and killed himself. Davie always was a top student from primary school to university. After he graduated from Cambridge he was unemployed and addicted to drink and drugs, finally committed suicide in the garden shed. And then, his wife moved to the living room. After retirement Harold spends all of time trimming lawn or in a trance. Everything is changed by a letter. One morning, Harold gets a mail from a woman Quenie he hasn’t seen for more than 20 years. She just wants to say goodbye to Harold, she has caught cancer advanced. Harold feels sad when he gets the bad news. He writes her a feeble and brief note and goes to post it. On the road, a lot of things about Quenie appear in his mind. When Harold and Queenie were working as colleagues she had taken the blame for a misdemeanor by Harold. She left from the company and saved Harold, but Harold has been guilt since then. He really wants to do something for her and can’t make Queenie disappointed again. He walks to the next post box, and the next, he is unable to stop moving ahead. Harold leaves without his mobile phone or any suitable clothing or equipment. His shoes very soon chafe his foots painfully. Sometimes he almost gives up, but he doesn’t, he keeps on moving. When someone driving a car on the road asks him in a raining day” Can I offer a lift to you?” He says “I need to walk, but thank you” to be continued