The bestselling author of The Unilikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry delivers an intoxicating adventure story about female friendship and the belief that the impossible is always possible, even in the most unlikely of circumstances.
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 and a collection
of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Her
books have been translated into thirty-six languages and two are in
development for film.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the
Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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.
Rachel has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and
adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4, including all the
Bronte novels. She moved to writing after a long career as an
actor, performing leading roles for the RSC, the National Theatre
and Cheek by Jowl.
She lives with her family in Gloucestershire.
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*
A clear-eyed, unsparing view of regret, failure, loss, & the cost
that life exacts from so many, countered with a belief in the
resilience of human spirit & the possibility of second chances.
*Observer*
Unlikely and mesmerising, it's a book you don't want to end.
*Choice*
An enchanting story of friendship and self-discovery
*Scottish Herald*
A glorious romp
*Saga*
I greatly enjoyed this warm and charming novel about one of the
most ill-matched companions in comic literature. The heroically
intellectual, ungainly, unsociable Margery and the barely literate,
flighty, charming, crazy Enid are both brave in very different yet
ultimately compatible ways. Their adventures both on board ship and
in New Caledonia read like EF Benson's Mapp and Lucia rewritten by
the gentler pen of Barbara Pym
*Amanda Craig, author of The Golden Rule*
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