Renowned authors Rachel Joyce and Esther Freud discuss the nuances of family relationships – their tensions, what breaks them and what it takes to mend them – in their new novels, The Homemade God and My Sister and Other Lovers. 

Joyce is the bestselling author of seven novels, including The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Freud is the author of nine previous novels and her work has been widely translated. Her debut novel, Hideous Kinky was adapted into a film starring Kate Winslet.