The homemade godThere is a heatwave across Europe, and Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece. Now he is dead. And there is no sign of his new wife and or his final painting. Though the siblings have always been close, the things they learn that summer about themselves, their father and their new

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La Sombra harbours a trove of family secrets

taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful novel about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots

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to troubled identities in Europe and the US

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