Laura Jensen Walker's "The Pilgrimage of Primrose Honeychurch," the movie

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If I were to cast my book as a movie, who would I like to see play the lead roles? First, let me tell you a bit about the main characters.

Primrose Honeychurch is a solitary, sharp-tongued recluse with sensory issues who prefers books to people. Accustomed to maintaining a set routine in her cookie-cutter Las Vegas suburb, when the seventy-year-old receives life-altering news, she sets off on an unexpected, life-altering pilgrimage to the UK.

During her journey, Primrose meets a tattooed, blue-haired American singer and lesbian named Riley, and gets to know her twenty-year-old Cornish great-niece, the neurodivergent Clover, who becomes a kindred spirit. Primrose also reconnects with her sixty-something cousin Daisy, Clover’s grandmother.

While writing the curmudgeonly, set-in-her-ways Primrose, I found myself thinking of Frances McDormand, who did such a wonderful job playing the strict, outspoken Olive in the TV miniseries Olive Kitteridge. Frances McDormand would make a great Primrose. At least, that’s what I thought until I saw...[read on]

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