Sarah Winman is a successful actor and author who has been clearly visible on our screens since the late 1980s. In 2011 she wrote her first novel When God was a Rabbit, which won several awards, including New Writer of the Year in the Galaxy National Book Awards. Despite such immediate success, Winman’s writing has nevertheless managed to go from strength to strength. Tin Man was shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards and Still Life, published in 2021, has been on the receiving end of rapturous praise from both critics and readers alike.
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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 EM 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.
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