The “Unlikely Pilgrimage” was an unlikely best-seller. Now, Rachel Joyce – who had a surprise hit with her first book, about an older man who walks across England in search of a friend – is back with ...

"The Music Shop: A Novel" (Random House), by Rachel Joyce Author Rachel Joyce has created the equivalent of the "Cheers" bar in a record store: "The Music Shop" is a warm, familiar place where ...

Rachel Joyce's new novel offers two parallel narratives: the 1972 story of Byron, an anxious schoolboy, and the present-day account of Jim, a... It's 1972, when we meet 11-year-old Byron Hemmings, an ...