Joyce bestows tenderness and grace, revealing how forgiveness and a reckoning with the past can transform the present for the better.

Eithne Farry, Mail on Sunday

Joyce is a fearless explorer of emotional landscape; Maureen's pilgrimage north becomes
a moving account of healing and acceptance.

Patricia Nicol, Sunday Times

Exquisite and beautifully crafted

Ruth Jones, Daily Mail

A beautiful novella ... with compassion and tenderness ... the novel's conclusion is deeply moving and life-affirming.

Hannah Beckerman, Observer

This short novel packs a big punch as Joyce paints an intimate portrait of fragility and grief, allowing us to experience unbearable pain but redemption too.

Vanessa Berridge, Daily Express

So beautiful, moving and tender. Rachel Joyce is our own Elizabeth Strout.

Nina Stibbe

This slim novella of barely 150 pages contains a world of emotion ... The kindness of strangers is Joyce's theme, as well as forgiveness and grief. No one writes difficult feelings better.

Wendy Holden, Daily Mail

Life-affirming. If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, make time to read this finale to the trilogy ... A touching tale about heartbreak and healing.

Good Housekeeping

A gorgeous read.

Anna Bonet, the i paper

Fry fans will delight in this tale of a redemptive journey and the kindness of strangers. A new Joyce. Rejoice anew!

Saga magazine