Rachel Joyce

Rachel Joyce is a British novelist who has gained critical acclaim with her “Harold Fry” series of novels. Her debut novel was “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” that was first published in 2012. Prior to becoming a published author, Joyce worked in the British acting industry, where she was an actor for twenty years working for several internationally acclaimed companies including the Royal National Theater and the RSC. Her debut novel “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” achieved much commercial success upon publication in 2012. It went on to become an international and Sunday times bestselling novel and made the shortlist for the Commonwealth Book Prize and the Man Booker Prize long list. In 2012, Rachel Joyce won the New Writer of the Tear Award at the Specsavers National Book Awards. Besides her first title, she has also written a collection of short stories and several more novels that have been just as well-received. Outside of novel writing, she worked with the BBC Radio 4 where she wrote more than 20 original radio dramas and radio plays. In fact, her debut novel was derived from a radio play, which she later decided to expand into a full-length book. Some of her novels have been made into radio dramas and plays. She lives in Cotswolds and is married to Paul Venables a British actor, with whom she has four children.