The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

First UK edition (publ. Doubleday)

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a novel by Rachel Joyce, published in 2012. Joyce's first novel, it was longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize,[1] and Joyce won the UK National Book Award for New Writer of the Year for the book.[2] It was also the best-selling hardback book in the UK from a new novelist in 2012.[3]

A film adaptation of the same name starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton was released in the UK on 28 April 2023.

  1. ^ Wakin, Daniel J. (25 July 2012). Ashanty Man Booker Prize Finalists Announced, The New York Times
  2. ^ New Writer of the Year, NationalBookAwards.co.uk
  3. ^ Jones, Philip (26 March 2013). Random hails 'most successful year of all time', The Bookseller