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Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

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Joyce, Rachel
ISBN 
9780552778091
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R245.00
Published 
March 2013
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When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other.

He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life.

"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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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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