Still Life

Author: Winman, Sarah

Italy

Published on 3 March 2022 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 448 pages
130 x 197 x 37 | 288g

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME

WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD

Sheer joy Graham Norton

Utterly beautiful ... filled with hope Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits Daily Mirror

From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of the families we forge and the friendships that make us.

1944, Italy. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening.

Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. She has come to salvage paintings from the wreckage of war and relive memories of her youth when her heart was stolen by an Italian maid in a particular room with a view. Ulysses chance encounter with Evelyn will transform his life - and all those who love him back home in London - forever.

Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship.

THE most beautiful book ... it will stay with me a long time Sara Cox, BBC Twos Between the Covers

Extraordinary . . . my book of the year Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties

Moving, wise, poetic and funny Daily Mail

Winmans pages teem with boisterous, exuberant life Sunday Times

Sunday Times bestseller 09/06/2021