Böcker av Rachel Joyce

En förutsättning för att kunna ge patienter omvårdnad av god kvalitet är att övervaka, observera och dokumentera patienternas vitalparametrar. Denna viktiga och praktiska bok hjälper dig att utveckla dina teoretiska och praktiska kunskaper om vuxn...

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When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile ...

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Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin `Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to rescue Byron's mother from impending crisis. Winter, present day: As frost creeps across the moor, Jim cleans tables in ...

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En morgon får Harold Fry ett brev ifrån en tidigare kollega, Queenie Hennessy, som berättar att hon är döende i cancer. Harold vill skriva något till Queenie, men vad ska han skriva? Hon har gjort något oerhört fint för honom en gång, men han kan ...

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'Exciting, moving and full of unexpected turns... surely this is the one that will propel the intrepid Joyce off the long and shortlists into prizewinning territory.'THE TIMES 'Brilliant and elegant and wise...powerful and moving...I can't recomme...

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Året är 1988, Thatcher och punken regerar England. På Unity Street i en liten engelsk industristad ligger Franks skivbutik. Frank säljer i princip all sorts musik, bara den är pressad i vinyl. En dag när han spelat Vivaldis De fyra årstiderna för ...

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Året är 1988, Thatcher och punken regerar England. På Unity Street i en liten engelsk industristad ligger Franks skivbutik. Frank säljer i princip all sorts musik, bara den är pressad i vinyl. En dag när han spelat Vivaldis De fyra årstiderna för ...

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From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story. When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her,...

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'Impossible to put down' THE TIMES'Life-affirming delight. A comic pleasure' WOMAN AND HOME'Profoundly moving' RICHARD MADELEYOVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD ____________________When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife ho...

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As read on Radio 4, seven linked stories set in the Christmas holidays - all as funny, joyous, poignant and memorable as Christmas should be: A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute sh...

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It is Christmas Eve. Binny has four hours to make Christmas happen and she couldn t feel less like wishing glad tidings of good will to all men least of all to Oliver. It is raining, her house is falling apart, the streets are jammed with people a...

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From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - 'A beautiful novel, a tonic for the soul and a complete joy to read.' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep.1988. Frank owns a music shop. It...

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När Queenie får höra att Harold Fry ska gå igenom hela England för att komma till henne blir hon chockad. Hon förklarade ju i sitt brev till honom att hon var döende. Hur ska han hinna till henne innan hon dör? En av sjuksystrarna föreslår att hon...

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År 1972 läggs två sekunder till tiden, för att balansera klocktiden med jordens rörelse. Byron Hemmings visste detta eftersom James Lowe hade sagt det till honom. James Lowe var den smartaste pojken i skolan. Men hur kan tiden ändras? När tiden fl...

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Recently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a letter from Queenie Hennessy, an old friend, who he hasn't heard from in twenty years. She has written to say she is in hospice and wanted to say goodbye. Lea...

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From the author of the international bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, comes another exquisite and emotionally resonant novel about the search for the truth and unconditional love.On a foggy spring morning in 1972, twelve-year-old...

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Just in time for Christmas, a heartwarming holiday e-original story by Rachel Joyce, the author of the bestselling The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.It is Christmas Eve and Binny has just four hours in which to make Christmas happen for her ch...

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When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queen...

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Two beloved novels in one volume!THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRYRecently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a letter from Queenie Hennessy, an old friend, who he hasn't heard from in twenty years. S...

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'Impossible to put down' TIMES 'Life-affirming delight. A comic pleasure' WOMAN AND HOME 'Profoundly moving' RICHARD MADELEY OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD ____________________ When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife ho...

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'It is her clever did-I-read-that-right twist at the end that really got to me and had me scrabbling through the chapters, open-mouthed.' Evening Standard Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operat...

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From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: ' A beautiful novel, a tonic for the soul and a complete joy to read.' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep. 1988. Frank owns a music shop. I...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST "[Rachel] Joyce's beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeming story of 'ordinary' English lives that enthrall...

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A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world with far-reaching consequences. Byron...

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In The Feminine Mystique, Jewish-raised Betty Friedan struck out against a postwar American culture that pressured women to play the role of subservient housewives. However, Friedan never acknowledged that many American women refused to retreat fr...

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BBC Radio 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME from 17-28 July. From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel; and about second chances and choosing to be brave despite t...

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Margery Benson's life ended the day her father walked out of his study and never came back. Forty years later, abandoning a dull job, she advertises for an assistant. The successful candidate is to accompany Margery on an expedition to the other s...

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