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A Snow Garden and Other Stories by Rachel Joyce
Category: Short Stories & Essays
Seven stories to span the Christmas holidays: A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping couldn't feel less like wishing glad tidings to all men. Ducking out of the rain she finds herself in the sort of shop she would never normally vi ...Show more
A Snow Garden and Other Stories by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
As read on Radio 4, seven linked stories set in the Christmas holidays - all as funny, joyous, poignant and memorable as Christmas should be A Faraway Smell of Lemon The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping couldn't feel less like wishing glad tidings to all ...Show more
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
The final piece of the Harold Fry trilogy, revisiting the characters ten years on to tell a story about loss and love and forgiveness. Ten years after her husband, Harold Fry's extraordinary walk across England to try and save a dying friend, Maureen Fry makes her own pilgrimage, and although she packs ...Show more
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn't end there.Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she now shares with her husband Harold after his iconic walk across England. Now, ten years la ...Show more
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
'A girl's own adventure . . . This is Rachel Joyce's best book yet . . . Exciting, moving and full of unexpected turns.' The Times'The perfect escape novel for our troubled times.' Patrick Gale____________________It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job an ...Show more
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
Margery Benson's life ended the day her father walked out of his study and never came back. Forty years later, abandoning a dull job, she advertises for an assistant. The successful candidate is to accompany Margery on an expedition to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may n ...Show more
Perfect by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain as their ...Show more
Perfect by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to rescue Byron's mother from impending crisis. Winter, present day: As frost creeps across the moor, Jim cleans tables in the local cafe, a solitary figure struggling with OCD. Hi ...Show more
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harol ...Show more
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story. When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note ...Show more
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note h ...Show more
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Category: Fiction
Frank has a gift for finding his customers the music they need to hear. When he meets Ilsa Brauchmann, a mysterious and beautiful woman with no ear for music, and engaged to another man, he falls in love. She is way above him, she will never be his, but he will take her on a journey through music. Twel ...Show more