The critically acclaimed, Sunday Times and international
bestseller, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2012- 'A magical,
moving and uplifting tale about a man's journey across England and
into his own heart.' - Deborah Moggach.
Rachel Joyce is the Specsavers National Book Awards New Writer
of the Year 2012.
The critically acclaimed, Sunday Times and international bestseller, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2012: 'A magical, moving and uplifting tale about a man's journey across England and into his own heart.' - Deborah Moggach. Rachel Joyce is the Specsavers National Book Awards New Writer of the Year 2012.
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.
One of the sweetest, most delicately-written stories I've read in a
long time. One man's walk along the length of England to save the
life of a dying woman. Each chapter describes a different encounter
along the way, with a definite nod to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Philosophical, intriguing, and profoundly moving.
*Foyles website*
Uplifting, funny and delicate
*The Daily Telegraph*
One of the sweetest, most delicately-written stories I've read in a
long time. One man's walk along the length of England to save the
life of a dying woman. Each chapter describes a different encounter
along the way, with a definite nod to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Philosophical, intriguing, and profoundly moving.
*Foyles website*
Uplifting, funny and delicate
*The Daily Telegraph*
At times almost unbearably moving.
*Sunday Times*
A brilliant and charming novel: full of comic panache yet acute and
poignant.
*Spectator*
one of the most moving, uplifting, inspiring novels I've ever
read
*Richard Madeley*
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a funny book, a wise book,
a charming book – but never cloying. It’s a book with a savage
twist, and yet never seems manipulative. Perhaps because Harold
himself is just wonderful...This book may follow a pattern set by
another radio dramatist-turned-novelist, David Nicholls, whose One
Day has now sold more than a million copies and been made into a
successful film simply because one reader said to another ‘I love
this book’ over and over again. So I’m telling you now: I love this
book.
*The Times*
Wonderful
*Guardian*
A terrific book, comic and sad and very honest. Harold is a
wonderfully-drawn character... his story is at the same time
emotionally gruelling and yet ultimately uplifting.
*Joanne Harris*
Soon after his retirement from a brewery in a quiet English village, Harold Fry receives a surprising letter. It's from beloved friend and colleague Queenie Hennessy, whom he hasn't heard from in 20 years, writing from a distant terminal cancer ward to say good-bye. This letter returns Harold to a horrifically painful part of his past, threatens his already troubled marriage, and ultimately leads to a crisis that casts into doubt everything he thinks he knows about himself. He decides to embark on a 600-mile walk to say goodbye to Queenie in person. Joyce, a former actress and acclaimed BBC scriptwriter here publishing her first novel, depicts Harold's personal crisis and the extraordinary pilgrimage it generates in masterly fashion, exploring psychological complexities with compassion and insight. The result is a novel of deep beauty and wisdom about the human condition; Harold, a deeply sympathetic protagonist, has much to teach us. VERDICT A great novel; essential reading for fans of literary fiction. [See Prepub Alert, 2/27/12.]-Patrick Sullivan, Manchester Community Coll., CT (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
One of the sweetest, most delicately-written stories I've read in a
long time. One man's walk along the length of England to save the
life of a dying woman. Each chapter describes a different encounter
along the way, with a definite nod to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Philosophical, intriguing, and profoundly moving. * Foyles website
*
Uplifting, funny and delicate * The Daily Telegraph *
One of the sweetest, most delicately-written stories I've read in a
long time. One man's walk along the length of England to save the
life of a dying woman. Each chapter describes a different encounter
along the way, with a definite nod to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Philosophical, intriguing, and profoundly moving. * Foyles website
*
Uplifting, funny and delicate * The Daily Telegraph *
At times almost unbearably moving. * Sunday Times *
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