2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
These siblings have a daddy problem. So off they go to Italy.
Rachel Joyce understands a common angst of middle age: the feeling of being stuck. The characters in her six novels — including 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' and 'Miss Benson's Beetle' — blossom only after leaving the familiar behind. And, as in the works of Anne Tyler, each of Joyce's novels is so entertaining that it is easy to forget the darkness that underpins the story.
