THE HOMEMADE GOD
Critically acclaimed story about sibling relationships - what holds a family together and what might fracture it forever. A successful gear change from this bestselling author, set against the wild backdrop of an intense heatwave in Europe.
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.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
JOYCE RACHEL
Rachel Joyce es escritora británica, autora de bestsellers como El insólito peregrinaje de Harold Fry, traducido a 36 idiomas y en desarrollo para cine. Ganó el premio "Nueva Escritora del Año" en 2012 y fue finalista del Man Booker Prize. Ha escrito más de veinte obras para BBC Radio 4, incluyendo adaptaciones de las novelas de las hermanas Brontë. Antes de dedicarse a la escritura, fue actriz en compañías como la Royal Shakespeare Company. Vive con su familia en Gloucestershire.
