Rachel Joyce is a novelist and dramatist.

Her debut novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. A feature film adaptation was released in 2023. A stage musical based on the book, written by Joyce herself with music by Passenger, was staged at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2025 and in the West End in 2026.

She has written plays for BBC Radio 4, and jointly won the 2007 Tinniswood Award for her radio play To Be a Pilgrim.

Michael David Rosenberg, better known by his stage name Passenger, is an English indie folk singer, songwriter and musician.