This Month's Book
Our Book of the Month
Each month Michelle hand-picks one outstanding book and delivers it in a beautiful subscription box, straight to your door. This month, we are reading The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce.
The Homemade God
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.
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