I liked this book more than I thought I would. When Harold Fry gets a letter from a work colleague telling him she is dying he is shaken out of his repressed and unhappy retirement and undertakes a pilgrimage to walk to her hospice. This takes him the length of Britain, on his way he meets many people who like him are also not coping but trying to put a brave face on things. He finds kindness and has time and space to work through his problems.