The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Rachel Joyce found Queenie Hennessy's story so compelling that The Love Song of Queenie Hennessy was ready for her editor in an astonishing five months. She tells about her character's persistance
LAST YEAR Rachel Joyce was writing a book about a music shop. She was 20,000 words in and was enjoying the process enormously. Then Queenie Hennessy, a minor character from her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry popped into her head and refused to budge.
