Homemade God

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