An Evening with Rachel Joyce

  • DATE

    28 January 2026

  • TIME

    7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

  • AGES

    All ages welcome

  • PRICE

    £10.99

Join international, multi-million copy bestseller, Rachel Joyce, for an evening of stories. She’ll be in conversation with a leading host exploring her brand new novel, The Homemade God.

​Best known for her award-winning novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel will explore what makes her characters so beloved and why The Homemade God feels like a new chapter on her writing journey.

​Every ticket comes with a copy of Rachel’s book, which she will sign and dedicate on the night.

​About the Book: The Homemade God

​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.

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.

​’Beautiful writing, unforgettable characters, and stunning setting make this a must-read.’ – Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry