Finding Henry Applebee

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

An absolute delight. Its beautiful and elegiac and written with such a good heart BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and producer Russell T. Davies OBE

A simply heart-string tugging book that offers a ready escape route from these testing time Jon Gower, Nation Cymru
Here Henry was, once again in a bustling train station, ready to resume where he had left off all those years ago

Finding Henry Applebee is a charming, tender and uplifting story about unlikely friendships, the power of love and how its never too late to change your life.

Perfect for fans of The Single Ladies of the Jacaranda Retirement Village and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

Eighty-five-year-old Henry Arthur Applebee has had a pretty good life. But one regret has haunted him for the last sixty-five years.

And so, on an ordinary December morning, he boards a train from London to Edinburgh. His goal is simple: to find the woman who disappeared from his life decades earlier.

But Henry isnt the only person on a mission. Also bound for Edinburgh is troubled teen, Ariel. And when the two strangers collide, what began as one humble journey will catapult them both into a whole new world

What readers are saying:

'A great book I highly recommend it to those interested in a narrative that touches one's heart and soul' Peter Thabit Jones

Beautifully written, wonderfully warm bestselling author Zara Stoneley

An uplifting read tender, beautiful writing and wonderful observations bestselling author Tracy Rees

An intricate, absorbing, sliding puzzle of a story about friendship, family and love bestselling author Iona Grey

Just wonderful Goodreads reviewer

This book will warm the cockles of your heart Goodreads reviewer

A moving portrait of the power of human kindness Goodreads reviewer

Reviews

An absolute delight. Its beautiful and elegiac and written with such a good heart BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and producer Russell T. Davies OBE

Beautifully written, wonderfully warm, a lovely, gentle, feel-good story perfect for this time of year Zara Stoneley, bestselling author of The Wedding Date

If youre looking for an uplifting read to coax you through January, I recommend Finding Henry Applebee tender, beautiful writing and wonderful observations Tracy Rees, bestselling author of The Hour Glass and The House at Silvermore

I found it to be an emotional and heartwarming story which had a quiet joyfulness about it. About life and love and relationships about second chances and it never being too late. The characters were wonderfully drawn, and I warmed to them all Caroline Roberts, bestselling author of The Pudding Pantry series

An intricate, absorbing, sliding puzzle of a story about friendship, family and love, written with warmth and genuine heart. Tender, lyrical and ultimately uplifting Iona Grey, bestselling author of Letters to the Lost

Charming, poignant and truthfully told Joanna Toye, author of The Shop Girls series

its tenderly and beautifully choreographed in a simply heart-string tugging book that offers a ready escape route from these testing times Jon Gower, Nation Cymru

Delightful and charming and just a tiny bit teary thebooktrail.com

Lovely, lovely, lovely motherhood-reads.com

Author Bio

Celia Reynolds was born and raised in Wales and worked for almost twenty-five years in the film industry in London, and briefly Rome. In 2012, she left her job as European Marketing Director at Twentieth Century Fox to enrol in the Complete Creative Writing Course held at the Groucho Club in Londons West End. Later that year, she was awarded Runner Up prize in the London Writers Club/Hush Short Story Competition with a story featuring one of the characters in her debut novel, Finding Henry Applebee. She is now based on the Gower coast in South Wales.