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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Film Tie-in

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Joyce, Rachel
ISBN 
9781529177190
Format 
Paperback
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R245.00
Published 
May 2023
About the book: 
The film tie-in edition of the international bestseller, including new interviews with Rachel Joyce and the production team.
 
  • Now a major film written by Rachel Joyce, award-winning author of the internationally bestselling book.
  • Directed by Hettie Macdonald (Normal People)
  • Starring Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent with Penelope Wilton
Harold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day... and just keeps walking.
 
'The odyssey of a simple man, original, subtle and touching.'  - Claire Tomalin
 
'From the moment I met Harold Fry, I didn't want to leave him. Impossible to put down.'  - Erica Wagner, The Times
 

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About the Author

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, Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North, The Music Shop, Miss Benson's Beetle,  and a collection of interlinked short stories,  A Snow Garden & Other Stories.

Rachel’s books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide.  The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry  was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The critically acclaimed film of the novel, for which Rachel also wrote the screenplay, was released in 2023.  Miss Benson’s Beetle  won the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize in 2021. Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards New Writer of the Year in December 2012 and was shortlisted for the UK Author of the Year in 2014. In 2024, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Kingston University.


Rachel has written over twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4. She lives with her family near Stroud.

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