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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.
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 what happens when they splinter, and what it would take to mend them.
CONTRIBUTORS: Rachel Joyce EAN: 9780857528209COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: 384WEIGHT: HEIGHT:
PUBLISHED BY: DoubledayDATE PUBLISHED: 2025-04-17CITY: GENRE: FictionWIDTH: SPINE:
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Contemporary Fiction
Sparkling and addictive … Rachel Joyce is so incredibly good and wise on families and siblings, pacing out a story’s secrets so that you have to read one more page. [It’s My Cousin Rachel meets The Enchanted April.] I couldn’t love it more. -- Harriet Evans, author of The Stargazers and The Garden of Lost and Found Published On: 2024-11-25
The Homemade God is an enthralling, thought-provoking, layered novel, seamed with a delicious dark humour. And, as in all the best redemptive stories, through the rubble of grief glimmers hope, acceptance and love. Truly wonderful. -- Sarah Winman, author of Still Life Published On: 2024-12-03
Lyrical, shrewd and, ultimately, as indecently satisfying as a four course Italian lunch, The Homemade God tells of four siblings surviving an artist father none can admit is a talentless monster and how the fallout of his death obliges each to shatter and rebuild their life. My life is a little emptier now it's over. -- Patrick Gale, author of A Place Called Winter Published On: 2024-11-27
A new novel by Rachel Joyce is always a cause for celebration and this was no exception.
I have always found something dark in her fiction and I feel this has been played down by reviewers at the expense of the warmth and healing that is also part of her great appeal. This terrific novel absolutely refused to be cosy and provided all sorts of misdirections and a sense of foreboding throughout. At first I could hear echoes of My Cousin Rachel and feel my anxieties and sympathies being expertly manipulated as I tried to work out who I was rooting for, but it was so much more subtle than that - none of the characters are wholly good or bad or dislikeable, because Rachel always shows us why they behave as they do. The missing picture was a neat image of the siblings' struggles to see their childhood with any kind of clarity.
Another triumph of insight and empathy!
I just expected a different ending with all the mystery and suspense building up. Otherwise I found the read enjoyful.
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, the instant New York Times best seller Miss Benson's Beetle, Maureen Fry & the Angel of the North and a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Her latest novel The Homemade God will be published in April ’25 in UK, and June ’25 in US and Canada.
Rachel's books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and sold millions of copies world-wide. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The critically acclaimed film of the novel, for which Rachel wrote the screenplay, was released in 2023 starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton, and in 2025 the musical will open in Chichester Festival Theatre, for which Rachel also wrote the script. Miss Benson's Beetle won the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2021, Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards 'New Writer of the Year' in December 2012 and she was shortlisted for the 'UK Author of the Year' 2014. In 2024 she was given an honorary doctorate by Kingston University.
Rachel has written many original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4 and she is currently adapting Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen which will be aired later this year. You can follow her on Instagram at rachelcjoyce.
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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.
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 what happens when they splinter, and what it would take to mend them.
CONTRIBUTORS: Rachel Joyce EAN: 9780857528209COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: 384WEIGHT: HEIGHT:
PUBLISHED BY: DoubledayDATE PUBLISHED: 2025-04-17CITY: GENRE: FictionWIDTH: SPINE:
I just expected a different ending with all the mystery and suspense building up. Otherwise I found the read enjoyful.
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, the instant New York Times best seller Miss Benson's Beetle, Maureen Fry & the Angel of the North and a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Her latest novel The Homemade God will be published in April ’25 in UK, and June ’25 in US and Canada.
Rachel's books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and sold millions of copies world-wide. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The critically acclaimed film of the novel, for which Rachel wrote the screenplay, was released in 2023 starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton, and in 2025 the musical will open in Chichester Festival Theatre, for which Rachel also wrote the script. Miss Benson's Beetle won the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2021, Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards 'New Writer of the Year' in December 2012 and she was shortlisted for the 'UK Author of the Year' 2014. In 2024 she was given an honorary doctorate by Kingston University.
Rachel has written many original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4 and she is currently adapting Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen which will be aired later this year. You can follow her on Instagram at rachelcjoyce.
A business built on Ethical leadership and honesty through and through
This leader must have a shower in his business office. Get yourself a copy and you'll understand why. Brilliant life story and business journey. This book will not only teach you about business, but how to sustain it ethically and honestly. He also narrates how you'll get your fingers burnt, but how to start over after losing everything. Family, business partners and creating community.
Juanita Aggenbach se boeke lyk almal vir my bekend vanweë treffende buiteblaaie, maar ek glo nie ek het al enige daarvan gelees nie. Toe ek haar vyfde roman, Liewer as lig, begin lees, was daar geen twyfel dat dit stewig staan in die geestelike fiksie genre nie.
Daar word nie geskimp oor geloofsake soos wedergeboorte nie, dit word by die naam genoem. Onderwerpe wat van altyd af twispunte is in kerkgeledere, soos grootdoop versus kinderdoop, gebruik van sterk drank en die immer-aanvegbare rookgewoonte, kom draai in die storielyn oor Schalk en Leah se lewe. Tekste uit die Bybel word selektief aangehaal en Schalk se gesprekke met die Vader is ’n perfekte weergawe van sy stryd en oorwinnings.
Schalk, ’n advokaat, en Leah, ’n hoërskoolonderwyseres, lewe welvarend en hard. Dit is vir hulle nie ongewoon om ná ’n kuier met vriende, erg kroes wakker te word nie. ’n Kollega van Schalk is ’n uitgesproke Christen en sy voorbeeld begin vir Schalk aanspreek; soveel so dat hy by die Here uitkom. Leah is egter in totale verset teen die nuwe Schalk en weier om saam met hom Bybel te lees.
Die verhaal onderstreep dat om die Here te volg jou nie gaan vrywaar van probleme nie. Daar is nie noodwendig kitsoplossings vir probleme soos finansies nie. Dit mag nodig wees om onvoorwaardelik te vergewe en indringend te kyk na prioriteite.
Liewer as lig lees maklik – dank aan die uitgewer, Lux Verbi (geestelike druknaam van Jonathan Ball Uitgewers) vir die lettertipe wat sag is op die oog. Klein letters en digte spasiëring word vir my al hoe moeiliker om te hanteer. Ek kan dit aanbeveel vir ander met dieselfde dilemma.
“There is no handbook for grief. There cannot be, because each loss is as unique as the person it belongs to.” (p.36) This is but one of the profound truths penned by Dominique Olivier in her book, Lessons from loss. The author does not strive to act as councilor or therapist, although she has a passion for reaching out to others who has suffered a loss. On the contrary, it is a painfully honest account of her journey through a devastating loss that she suffered.
Dominique lost both her husband and her young daughter in a horrific traffic accident. From the outset she makes it clear that there should be no hierarchy of loss. Although losing a spouse or a child is often deemed as the worst kind of loss, it can be the loss of a marriage, a miscarriage or a job that sets you off on a painful path of recovery. Another sentiment that struck home, is the idea that grief has no expiry date. (p.51) She describes it as “something chronic”.
The writer does not lean on sentimentality. The vivid descriptions of panic attacks, the constant anxiety that plagued her, the criticism that she encountered during the journey through her grief, painful triggers – all of this put together in a remarkable account of loss, and an attempt to “move forward” not to “move on”.
Whether or not you are a member of what the author calls “The Losers Club”, membership of which can only be obtained by own loss, the journey of Dominique Olivier will not leave you untouched.
