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Rachel Joyce (writer)
British writer
Rachel Joyce (born ) is a British writer. She has written plays for BBC Radio 4, and jointly won the Tinniswood Award for her radio play To Be a Pilgrim.[1][2] Her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, was on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize,[3] and in December she was awarded the "New Writer of the Year" award by the National Book Awards for this book.[4]
She had an earlier career as an actress,[5] and has said that between her first writing ambitions aged 14 and the writing of her first novel she was "a young woman, a mother, an actress, a writer of radio drama - not to mention a terrible waitress in a wine bar, a door-to-door sales girl for one morning, and an assistant in a souvenir shop".[6]
She is married to actor Paul Venables, and lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and four children.
She is the sister of actress Emily Joyce.
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About Rachel Joyce
Background Influences
I was born in in South East London and brought up on a small sixties urban housing estate with my two younger sisters, Amy and Emily. We read Beatrix Potter, Noel Streatfeild, Joan Aiken and made up a lot of games about imaginary countries and animals who wore bonnets.
I have written since I was a child. It was my haven, just as reading was my haven. I wrote my autobiography when I was eight because I was worried my writing talents had gone unnoticed. (I was right. They had.) When I was fourteen, I sent off a story secretly to a publisher under a pseudonym because I thought that might give me a better chance. I called myself Mary Thornton, which might sound like a box of chocolates, but was at the time a bow to Jane Eyre.
A Journey to Professional Writing
After studying English at Bristol University, I had a brief period where I worked unsuccessfully as a nanny. ( I was a nice nanny, but I was not a tidy one, and my cooking was exclusively of the baked potato and cheese variety.) I was very briefly a door to door sales person &#; I lasted less than a morning because I was too appalled to ring anyone&#;s doorbell &#; and then I was a barmaid in one of those champagne bars that were opening up all over London in the eighties. I refu