{"product_id":"homemade-god","title":"Homemade God","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFamily is everything, even when it falls apart.\u003cbr\u003e Discover 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\u003eIsolation 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\u003e Patrick 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\u003eSmall 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\u003e There is a heatwave across Europe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\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":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Homemade God","offer_id":44486782189765,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-85752-820-9.jpg?v=1740003315","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/homemade-god","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}