Rachel Joyce

The Chatelaine Book Club recently had the pleasure of spending the evening with the brilliant Rachel Joyce, author of our August Book Club Pick, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

Alex, Lora and I discuss what a revelation Rachel Joyce’s debut novel is. This unassuming story has immense emotional weight without being melodramatic, and left us in tears at the end – something we weren’t quite expecting when we began reading it.

Paula McLain won near universal acclaim for her novel The Paris Wife, written from the perspective of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson, about their marriage and time in tumultuous 1920s Europe. McLain shares with Chatelaine her thoughts on perfect summer reads.

When Rachel Joyce’s hero, Harold Fry, sets off to post a letter to an old friend, little does he know that he’s heading out on a weeks-long journey that will take him right across Britain. This captivating and emotional debut novel takes a look at one man’s unexamined life and what it takes for him to find his way back to happiness and love.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is our next Book Club pick. Here's our review to get things started.