Still Life

Author: Sarah Winman

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  • : $32.99 AUD
  • : 9780008283360
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
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  • : May 2021
  • : 3.4 Centimeters X 15.5 Centimeters X 23.5 Centimeters
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  • : 32.99
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  • : January 2023
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  • : Sarah Winman
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  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : 823.92
  • : very good
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Barcode 9780008283360
9780008283360

Description

From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster. 1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the wreckage and relive memories of the time she encountered E.M. Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view. Evelyn’s talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses’ mind that will shape the trajectory of his life – and of those who love him – for the next four decades. Moving from the Tuscan Hills and piazzas of Florence, to the smog of London’s East End, Still Life is a sweeping, joyful novel about beauty, love, family and fate. ‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton ‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon ‘A bear-hug of a book’ Rachel Joyce ‘Four course nourishment for all Winman fans’ Patrick Gale‘Extraordinary . . . my book of the year’ Liz Nugent ‘The kind of story that bolsters the heart and soul’ Donal Ryan

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Reviews

Loved it. Will resonate with fans of Kate Atkinson and anyone who's enjoyed Florence.  - April    Absolutely beautiful, I cried at the end. Cathy - long term customer