Event Description

The Homemade God, Rachel Joyce in conversation with Patrick Gale

LitFest favourite, Rachel Joyce, makes a welcome return to Penzance as she talks to Patrick Gale about her latest novel. The Homemade God is about sibling relationships and those hairline cracks that can appear within any family. It tells of Goose and his three sisters, who gather at the family’s house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, had recently decamped there, with his new and much-younger wife, to finish his masterpiece. Now he is dead and there is no sign of the painting.

Rachel is the author of the Sunday Times and international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (now also a film), Perfect, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North, The Music Shop and Miss Benson’s Beetle.

Venue: The Acorn