THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKWINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About ElsieTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKWINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie’A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits’ Daily MirrorFrom 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 Two’s Between the Covers‘Extraordinary . . . my book of the year’ Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties‘Moving, wise, poetic and funny’ Daily Mail‘Winman’s pages teem with boisterous, exuberant life’ Sunday TimesSunday Times bestseller 09/06/2021‘The sheer joy in Sarah Winman’s storytelling is completely infectious. I’ve loved spending time with this unforgettable cast of characters in extraordinary times and places’ Graham Norton‘Glorious … This luscious and clever book is at first glance simply a rollicking summer read … It’s a joy to witness several different thoroughly believable models of how lives can be resurrected and changed for the better’ The Times‘Winman’s pages teem with boisterous, exuberant life … The novel has verve, charm and tremendous heart; its most poignant scenes, set during the 1966 flooding of Florence, recall the darkest hours of last year’s pandemic’ Sunday Times‘Exquisite … There are not enough superlatives to contain the magnitude and beauty of this novel’ Sunday Independent‘In Still Life, [Winman] emerges now as the great narrator of hope’ Helen Cullen, Irish Times‘Teeming with unforgettable characters and oozing atmosphere, it’s a joyous, summery ode to love, art and poetry’ Hephzibah Anderson, Mail on Sunday‘A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits redefining the meaning of family and friendship … [A] hopeful, happy, intensely humane novel’ Daily Mirror‘Readers will want to prolong the pleasure of Sarah Winman’s beautiful novel Still Life for as long as possible’ Donal Ryan, author of From a Low and Quiet Sea'Embodies the full generosity of the human spirit. [A] bear-hug of a book’ Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry‘An utterly beautiful story, so generous, rich, deeply moving and filled with hope. Sarah Winman is one of the greatest storytellers of our time’ Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep‘Moving, wise, poetic and funny, this book is pure sunshine and I just loved it’ Daily MailThe instant Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pickSarah Winman is author of When God Was a Rabbit,  A Year of Marvellous Ways and Tin Man. She lives in London.The instant Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick• A MAJOR ACQUISITON: A major acquisition for 4th Estate and one of the most highly anticipated novels of the year.• A GREAT TRACK RECORD: Winman’s debut When God Was a Rabbit sold almost 350k(TCM) paperbacks, and her most recent novel Tin Man, has already sold 28k(TCM).• Any Human Heart meets A Room with A View.Competition: Tin Man;When God Was a Rabbit;A Year of Marvellous Ways;Less;The Heart’s Invisible Furies;The Great Believers;Where the Crawdads Sing;Boy Swallows Universe;Girl Woman Other;Three Things About Elsie;hamnet;the lamplighters;Honeybee. John Boyne;Delia Owens;Joanna Cannon;maggie ofarrel;kazuo ishiguro
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