The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce (Penguin, 2025)
Fiction
The Homemade God (ISBN: 9780857528193, hardback) is set at the Kamp family’s island villa, in Italy. World-famous artist and widower, Vic Kamp, has been bringing his family to the villa for years. This year he brings his young, mysterious fiancé and marries her, in the absence of his children. His death and her presence expose the long-suppressed fractures in the family, and the dark, manipulative shadow Vic has cast on his too-dependent children. It’s a story of false hope, and it isn’t gentle, but if it isn’t a good book group book, I don’t know what is!