The Homemade God

<p><b>Family is everything, even when it falls apart.<br>Discover the brand-new novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author.</b><br><br><b>'It made me laugh, it made me cry and I couldn’t put it down. If you are a fan of Maggie O’Farrell you must read this.'</b> - Louise Minchin, TV presenter and author of<i> Isolation Island </i><br><br><b>'Rachel Joyce is a masterful storyteller.</b>' - Sarah Winman, author of <i>Still Life</i><br><br><b>’The renowned artist - the emotionally starved children - what an inspired subject! Joyce writes with her trademark vitality and compassion and there is such colour here. So much at stake. I couldn’t put it down.’</b> - Esther Freud, author of <i>Hideous Kinky</i> and <i>Mr Mac and Me</i><br><br><b>'Lyrical, shrewd and, ultimately, as indecently satisfying as a four course Italian lunch. My life is a little emptier now it's over.' - </b>Patrick Gale, author of <i>A Place Called Winter</i><br><b>'Sparkling and addictive … Rachel Joyce is so incredibly good and wise on families and siblings. I couldn’t love it more.'</b> - Harriet Evans, author of <i>The Garden of Lost and Found</i><br><br><b>‘A triumph of insight and empathy!’ </b>- Clare Chambers, author of<i> Small Pleasures</i><br><br><b>'Joyce is a fearless explorer of emotional landscape.' – </b><i>Sunday Times</i><br><br><b>'If only there were more novelists like Rachel Joyce' – </b><i>Telegraph</i><br><br><br>There is a heatwave across Europe.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>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.</b></p>