It would take quite a while before she felt that she was ready to find an agent and proceed to publish her first novel. Having quit her acting job, she used the knowledge she acquired in school to write while taking care of her growing children. She enrolled for a creative writing course at Faber, and got quickly off the blocks given her experience in writing plays. During this time she had gotten married and acting was taking too much of a toll, making a professional writing career the most viable option. She spent 16 years acting and when she started to tire of it got into professional writing. She would study English at Bristol and enroll for a RADA course, which ultimately led to a career in the RSC. Staying at home in bed gave her the opportunity to read all manner of her books from her favorite writers such as Rosemary Weir’s “Pyewacket and Heidi”, that made her feel all safe and comfortable.

Given her reticent nature, she did not like school and would invent all manner of illnesses so that she would not have to go.

She was an extremely shy, anxious, and troubled child that found it difficult to deal with issues in life. Rachel Joyce has always loved writing stories ever since she was a child and had written her biography by the time she turned eight. She lives in Cotswolds and is married to Paul Venables a British actor, with whom she has four children. Some of her novels have been made into radio dramas and plays. In fact, her debut novel was derived from a radio play, which she later decided to expand into a full-length book. Outside of novel writing, she worked with the BBC Radio 4 where she wrote more than 20 original radio dramas and radio plays. Besides her first title, she has also written a collection of short stories and several more novels that have been just as well-received. In 2012, Rachel Joyce won the New Writer of the Tear Award at the Specsavers National Book Awards. It went on to become an international and Sunday times bestselling novel and made the shortlist for the Commonwealth Book Prize and the Man Booker Prize long list. Her debut novel “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” achieved much commercial success upon publication in 2012. Prior to becoming a published author, Joyce worked in the British acting industry, where she was an actor for twenty years working for several internationally acclaimed companies including the Royal National Theater and the RSC. Her debut novel was “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” that was first published in 2012. Rachel Joyce is a British novelist who has gained critical acclaim with her “Harold Fry” series of novels.

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