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, Maureen Fry and the Angel of
the North, The Music Shop, Miss Benson's Beetle, and a collection
of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories.
Rachel's books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and
have sold millions of copies worldwide. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of
Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and
longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The critically acclaimed film
of the novel, for which Rachel also wrote the screenplay, was
released in 2023. Miss Benson's Beetle won the Wilbur Smith
Adventure Writing Prize in 2021. Rachel was awarded the Specsavers
National Book Awards New Writer of the Year in December 2012 and
was shortlisted for the UK Author of the Year in 2014. In 2024 she
was awarded an honorary doctorate by Kingston University.
Rachel has written over twenty original afternoon plays and
adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4. She lives with her
family near Stroud.
Joyce bestows tenderness and grace, revealing how forgiveness and a
reckoning with the past can transform the present for the
better.
*Mail on Sunday*
Joyce is a fearless explorer of emotional landscape; Maureen's
pilgrimage north becomes
a moving account of healing and acceptance.
*Sunday Times*
Exquisite and beautifully crafted
*Daily Mail*
A beautiful novella ... with compassion and tenderness ... the
novel's conclusion is deeply moving and life-affirming.
*Observer*
Very rarely, there is a writer who can touch the deepest and most
hidden parts of the soul, by using the everyday matter of our daily
lives to reveal the sacred that always surrounds us. This writer is
Rachel Joyce, and her trilogy starting with The Unlikely Pilgrimage
of Harold Fry, then The Love Song of Queenie Hennessy and finally
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North does just that, as well as
delighting by her assured story-telling. To read her work is to
think at first you are being invited to a perfect and delicious
afternoon tea - then realise that you are intimate communion with
what it means to be human: to suffer, to love, and to be
understood. There is beauty, and the reason for art.
*Laline Paul*
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