Joyce was named the Specsavers National Book Awards 'New Writer of the Year' in December 2012 and shortlisted for the 'UK Author of the Year' 2014. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Her books have been translated into thirty-six languages and two are in development for film. Rachel Joyce is the author of Miss Benson's Beetle, The Music Shop, the Sunday Times and international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect, and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, as well as the digital short story A Faraway Smell of Lemon and a story collection, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. A novel of charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise-and utterly irresistible-storyteller. Determined to walk six hundred miles to the hospice, Harold believes that as long as he walks, Queenie will live. In his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold Fry embarks on an urgent quest. But before Harold mails off a quick reply, a chance encounter convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl, from a woman he hasn't heard from in twenty years. Little differentiates one day from the next. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 'Joyce's beguiling debut is modest-seeming story of 'ordinary' English lives that enthralls and moves you as it unfolds.'- People (four stars)

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