Rachel Joyce

RACHEL JOYCE is the award-winning author of the New York 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 Maureen , as well as a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book...See more

RACHEL JOYCE is the award-winning author of the New York 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 Maureen , as well as a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and longlisted for the Booker Prize; a critically acclaimed film adaptation, for which Joyce also wrote the screenplay, was released in 2023. She was awarded the Specsavers New Writer of the Year National Book Award in 2012 and was on the shortlist for the UK Author of the Year in 2014. Miss Benson's Beetle won the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize in 2021 and Joyce was awarded an honorary doctorate by Kingston University in 2024. Rachel Joyce lives with her family in Gloucestershire, England. See less