{"product_id":"the-homemade-god","title":"The Homemade God","description":"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 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2026'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","brand":"Transworld Publ. Ltd UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57601209237830,"sku":"9781804994344","price":12.73,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/425898ab013889c4a24bee72e085b7559c2eb589a32b5ffe47e1743d56b53582.jpg?v=1792054913","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/products\/the-homemade-god","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}