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Title:
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Homemade God |
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Authors:
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Joyce, Rachel |
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Genre:
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Fiction |
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Pages:
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400 |
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Year:
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2026 |
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Publisher:
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Penguin Books |
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Language:
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English |
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Description:
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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.
Comments from BDS Reviewers:
This book is beautifully written and the characters evolve as the book goes on. Partly a mystery and partly a study of human dynamics.
I was gripped by the actual mystery but then became more involved with who the children are, and how they came to develop their individual personalities.
It has moments of humour and deep insightfulness into sibling rivalry and family dynamics. Beautifully descriptive too.
So very different to the other books I've read by Rachel Joyce, in that it was a family drama with such very different and interesting children.
I can't improve on the blurb on the back of the book, 'layered and enthralling, seamed with a delicious dark humour.' Vic's family is truly dysfunctional and yet delightfully entertaining.
The author takes the time to provide the backstory of their upbringing, and by the end of the novel you're part of the family too, and deeply invested in their future happiness.
The whole thing is a joy to read, with new quirks, twists and explanations for the behaviours of these four siblings revealed in each chapter.
The ending is particularly satisfying. A good read!
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Categories:
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Fiction, Family Saga, Mystery, Italy, UK, Just Added, 2027_2 Titles |
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