Rachel Joyce
Writing Coach
Rachel Joyce is the multi-million copy bestselling, award-winning, Booker Prize-listed author of six novels and short stories. Her novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a major motion movie starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton, for which Rachel also wrote the screenplay.
Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times, New York Times and international bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry as well as Perfect, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The Music Shop, Miss Bensonâs Beetle and a collection of short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories.
Rachelâs books have been translated into thirty-six languages. 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 âNew Writer of the Yearâ in December 2012 and shortlisted for the âUK Author of the Yearâ 2014.
Rachel was the winner of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. She has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4, including all the Brontë 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.
The film of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was released in 2022 starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton.
I write every day. You keep a story alive by being with it. Even when I am not writing, the thing I am working on is with me.