{"product_id":"homemade-god","title":"Joyce Rachel: The Homemade God [2025] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFamily is everything, even when it falls apart.\u003cbr\u003eDiscover the brand-new novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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.'\u003c\/b\u003e - Louise Minchin, TV presenter and author of\u003ci\u003e Isolation Island \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Rachel Joyce is a masterful storyteller.\u003c\/b\u003e' - Sarah Winman,  author of \u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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.'\u003c\/b\u003e - Esther Freud, author of \u003ci\u003eHideous Kinky\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMr Mac and Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lyrical, shrewd and, ultimately, as indecently satisfying as a four course Italian lunch. My life is a little emptier now it's over.' - \u003c\/b\u003ePatrick Gale, author of \u003ci\u003eA Place Called Winter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Sparkling and addictive ... Rachel Joyce is so incredibly good and wise on families and siblings. I couldn't love it more.'\u003c\/b\u003e - Harriet Evans, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of Lost and Found\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A triumph of insight and empathy!' \u003c\/b\u003e- Clare Chambers, author of\u003ci\u003e Small Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Joyce is a fearless explorer of emotional landscape.' - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'If only there were more novelists like Rachel Joyce' - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a heatwave across Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoose 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtraordinarily 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joyce, Rachel","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":51259871134035,"sku":"XE80857528209","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":50554522370387,"sku":"9780857528209","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/rachel-joyce-joyce-rachel-the-homemade-god-2025-paperback-9780857528209-1146087729.jpg?v=1750865579","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/homemade-god","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}