The Homemade God

Discover the brand-new novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author. Beautifully observed, devastating while deeply compassionate, it reminds us that family is everything, even when it falls apart. Perfect for fans of Ann Patchett and Maggie O'Farrell.

'Rachel Joyce is a masterful storyteller.' - Sarah Winman, Sunday Times bestselling author of Still Life

'Joyce is a fearless explorer of emotional landscape.' – Sunday Times
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'If only there were more novelists like Rachel Joyce' – Telegraph

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.

Alhough 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 what happens when they splinter, and what it would take to mend them.