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.
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