Friday 25th April 2025

An Evening with Rachel Joyce

Kibworth Cricket Club, 7.30pm (doors 6.30pm) 

Kibworth Books is delighted to welcome acclaimed writer Rachel Joyce in celebration of her newest novel 'The Homemade God'. 

Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the night or can be preordered ahead of the event.

Rachel will be happy to sign and dedicate copies of her books which have been purchased at Kibworth Books. 

Pre-order the book here

About the book: 

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 what happens when they splinter, and what it would take to mend them.

About Rachel Joyce:  

As well as writing many wonderful novels Rachel has also written plays for BBC Radio 4, and jointly won the 2007 Tinniswood Award for her radio play To Be a Pilgrim. Her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, was on the longlist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, and in December 2012 she was awarded the "New Writer of the Year" award by the National Book Awards. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was also made into a film that was released in 2023. 

Rachel's other books include:

• Perfect (2013)
• The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (2014)
• A Snow Garden and Other Stories (2015)
• The Music Shop (2017)
• Miss Benson's Beetle (2020)
• Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North (2022)

Please note that event tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.