Family is everything even when it falls apart. Discover the escapist new Sunday Times
bestselling novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Miss Benson's Beetle and
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry . 'The perfect holiday read' - The Times 'A
must-read.' Bonnie Garmus bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry 'I didn't think it was
possible to love Rachel Joyce's writing more then I read The Homemade God...gorgeous' - Jennie
Godfrey bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things 'Rachel Joyce is a masterful
storyteller.' - Sarah Winman bestselling author of?Still Life --------------------- There is
a heatwave across Europe. Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake
Orta in Piedmont Italy. Their father a famous artist has recently remarried a much younger
woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece. Now he is dead and there is no sign of a
painting. Although the siblings have always been close as they search for answers over that
summer the things they learn - about themselves their father and their new stepmother - will
drive them apart before they can come to any kind of understanding of what their father's
legacy truly is. Extraordinarily compelling at heart this is a novel about sibling
relationships and those hairline cracks that can appear within a family: what happens when they
splinter and what it would take to mend them. Praise for The Homemade God: 'The most
moving beautiful and brilliant book I've read in a long time.' - Claire Pooley author of How
to Age Disgracefully 'A triumph of insight and empathy!' - Clare Chambers author of?Small
Pleasures 'Sharp absorbing emotionally intelligent' - Guardian 'Deeply satisfying' -
Observer 'A highly compelling mystery and a tender brilliantly drawn exploration of sibling
dynamics. I couldn't put it down.' - India Knight author of Darling 'Joyce is a fearless
explorer of emotional landscape.' - Sunday Times 'If only there were more novelists like
Rachel Joyce' - Telegraph 'Joyce writes with her trademark vitality and ... I couldn't put
it down.' - Esther Freud author of Hideous Kinky and Mr Mac and Me 'Lyrical shrewd and
ultimately as indecently satisfying as a four course Italian lunch. My life is a little
emptier now it's over.' - Patrick Gale author of A Place Called Winter 'Sparkling and
addictive ... Rachel Joyce is so incredibly good and wise on families and siblings. I couldn't
love it more.' - Harriet Evans author of The Garden of Lost and Found
