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The Homemade God
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  • Published: 15 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9780857528209
  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $34.99

The Homemade God

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3 Feb 2026
Tr. Paperback
15 Apr 2025
EBook
17 Apr 2025
Audiobook
17 Apr 2025
Hardback
17 May 2025
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Set against the wild backdrop of an intense heatwave in Europe, this is a story about sibling relationships - what holds a family together and what might fracture it forever.

Family is everything, even when it falls apart.

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.
  • Published: 15 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9780857528209
  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Rachel Joyce

Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The Music Shop and a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Her books have been translated into thirty-six languages and two are in development for film.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards ‘New Writer of the Year’ in December 2012 and shortlisted for the ‘UK Author of the Year’ 2014.

Rachel has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4, including all the Bronte novels. She moved to writing after a long career as an actor, performing leading roles for the RSC, the National Theatre and Cheek by Jowl.

She lives with her family in Gloucestershire.

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Miss Benson's Beetle
Penguin Readers Level 5: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (ELT Graded Reader)
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North
An Unlikely Pilgrimage: The Radio Dramas of Rachel Joyce
The Bronte BBC Radio Drama Collection
Wuthering Heights
The Music Shop
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