Rachel has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4, including all the Bronte novels. 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.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Rachel's books have been translated into thirty-six languages. The film of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will be released on 28 April 2023. Her new novel, Maureen Fry & the Angel of the North is. Joyce, a radio-dramatist turned novelist, is less sure-footed when attempting satire, and Harold's run-ins with film stars and assorted media folk are far less elegantly handled than her tender description of the kind Slovakian doctor who tends to Harold or the young girl in the petrol station who inadvertently makes him believe in himself.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 and a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. At one point he attracts a growing band of fellow pilgrims and becomes the centre of a media storm. Some are moved by his act, others bemused.
Along the way he encounters many different people. There are Biblical overtones and elements of parable to Harold's story. Joyce's writing is clean and simple, at times deceptively so. She remembers her husband as he once was and everything he once meant to her. Without maps or waterproofs and only yachting shoes on his feet, he walks and walks, while his wife Maureen waits at home at first she is angered by what she perceives as abandonment but eventually his distance allows her emotions to resurface. He believes that in some way his journey will help his friend to live.
When Harold Fry, a timid man in his later years, discovers that a former friend and colleague is seriously ill, he sets out with the intention of posting her a letter but instead embarks on 600-mile walk from Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed. T his Booker long-listed debut novel begins with the arrival of an unexpected letter and an impulsive act.
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