09-05-2025
Rachel Joyce: My favourite read is like Emma Bovary meets Quentin Tarantino
Born in 1962, Rachel Joyce worked as a nanny, door-to-door saleswoman, barmaid and actress. And although she has written since she was a child, her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, was not published until she was 50. She has more than made up for the time: Harold Fry won a National Book award, was longlisted for the Booker prize and, more recently, adapted into a film starring Jim Broadbent. She has since published six other novels, including Miss Benson's Beetle, Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North and The Homemade God.
I am lucky enough as a radio writer to have adapted several of the classics for BBC Radio 4, but the one I always wanted — and
