The bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry delivers an intoxicating adventure story about female friendship and having the courage to live your dreams, however unlikely they may be.
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, Maureen Fry & the Angel of the North and a collection of
interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories.
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.
The critically acclaimed film of the novel, starring Jim Broadbent
and Penelope Wilton, was released in 2023. 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.
In 2024 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Kingston
University.
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.
Unmissable fiction from an award-winning author: an unlikely pair
embark on a grand adventure in this glorious novel about second
chances, heartfelt friendships and emotional courage.
*Sunday Express*
A girl's own adventure...This is Rachel Joyce's best book yet
...Exciting, moving and full of unexpected turns... surely this is
the one that will propel the intrepid Joyce off the long and
shortlists into prizewinning territory.
*The Times*
A joy of a novel, with real insight into the lives of women, the
value of friendship and the lasting effects of war
*Guardian*
Joyce's characters are so charmingly eccentric that they could have
leapt straight from the pages of a Dickens novel. Enid is a comedic
masterpiece, effervescent and brimming with life.
This exhilarating story will scoop you up and carry you along to a
dizzying crescendo. But it is also a story of an unlikely
friendship and of women who refuse to be defined by the labels cast
upon them in drab 1950s Britain. Funny, wise, and utterly
life-affirming
*Daily Express*
A life-affirming, joyously escapist picaresque tale
*Sunday Times*
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