Rachel Joyce

What was it like to see your first novel listed for the Man Booker Prize, be a first-novel prize-winner, and ride high in the Sunday Times bestseller list? How does a writer follow that? In this author’s case, with a novel called Perfect.

Writer of more than twenty afternoon plays for Radio 4, major adaptations for Woman’s Hour, and a television drama for BBC2, Rachel Joyce’s first novel was the hugely-popular The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Her next book, Perfect, has a very different but equally unlikely hero and is a story of secrets, mistakes, and the destructive power of perfection.