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, 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.
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*
This glorious novel is as much about second chances, heartfelt
friendships and emotional courage as it is about trekking through
dangerous terrain.
*Sunday Express*
A glorious novel about second chances, heartfelt friendships and
emotional courage.
*Daily Mirror*
BEST BOOKS FOR SUMMER 2020: uplifting
*Stylist*
Rachel Joyce created an unforgettable character with Harold Fry and
she's done it again with Margery Benson ... Hilarious
*Good Housekeeping*
A sparkling new take on the concept of changing your life on a whim
... a standout, special read.
*The Lady*
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