The critically acclaimed, Sunday Times and international bestseller, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2012: 'A magical, moving and uplifting tale about a man's journey across England and into his own heart.' - Deborah Moggach.
Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international
bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect, The
Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The Music Shop, Miss Benson's
Beetle and a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden
& Other Stories. Her new novel, Maureen Fry & the Angel of the
North is out now. The film of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
will be released on 28 April 2023.
Rachel's books have been translated into thirty-six languages. The
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the
Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards 'New Writer
of the Year' in December 2012 and shortlisted for the 'UK Author of
the Year' 2014.
Rachel has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and
adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4, including all the
Bronte novels. She moved to writing after a long career as an
actor, performing leading roles for the RSC, the National Theatre
and Cheek by Jowl.
She lives with her family in Gloucestershire.
One of the sweetest, most delicately-written stories I've read in a
long time. One man's walk along the length of England to save the
life of a dying woman. Each chapter describes a different encounter
along the way, with a definite nod to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Philosophical, intriguing, and profoundly moving.
*Foyles website*
Uplifting, funny and delicate
*The Daily Telegraph*
Wonderful
*Guardian*
At times almost unbearably moving.
*Sunday Times*
A brilliant and charming novel: full of comic panache yet acute and
poignant.
*Spectator*
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