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 and 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 short-listed for the Commonwealth Book Prize and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Joyce was awarded the Specsavers National Book Award for New Writer of the Year in December 2012 and was short-listed for the UK Author of the Year in 2014. She has also written more than twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4, including all of the Brontë novels. She moved to writing after a long career as an actor, performing leading roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and Cheek by Jowl. She lives with her family in Gloucestershire, England.
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