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Still Life: The instant Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick Paperback – 3 Mar. 2022

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021
WINNER 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 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 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 Times

Sunday Times bestseller 09/06/2021

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448 pages
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English
Publisher

Fourth Estate
Publication date

3 Mar. 2022
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12.9 x 3.4 x 19.8 cm
ISBN-10

0008283397
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978-0008283391
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‘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 Mail

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The instant Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate; 1st edition (3 Mar. 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008283397
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008283391
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 3.4 x 19.8 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 44 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- 5 in Biographical Fiction (Books)
- 18 in Historical Fiction (Books)

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gerardpeter

Spaghetti alla Melodrama

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2021

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Sarah Winman assembles a diverse cast of characters to deliver a “feel good” saga set in Italy and London. Happy endings I am fine with, but this was too much.

The young army corporal and the ageing art historian we first meet in 1944, in Florence, brought together by chance. This “odd couple” was promising, and the early pages are the best part of the book. Through these two ripple wider circles of family and friends. All salt-of-the-earth types and neither rounded nor credible characters. They felt rather like a “gang” – fans of Friends would probably love it. Chance and rather unlikely good fortune propels the story.

The interesting question is will Ulysses and Evelyn meet up again – hints of Friends again. This propels the reader through until 1980.The setting is divided between an East End pub and an Italian pensione. Like other similar novels the author checklists the big events with broad accuracy. However, the characters seemed remarkably tolerant, open-minded and liberal. Just too good to be true. Too nice really. This makes it difficult to plot social changes as I assume the author would like to do and as the reader would expect.

Dialogue is also anachronistic. Modern expressions are freely given to speakers in the 1940s and 1950s when they were absolutely not current. I am not sure how bothered the author was to get this right, as she also gives us a talking tree and a free-thinking parrot.

In my humble opinion, a novel must convince and challenge – and this does neither.

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Oh my goodness...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2021

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What a ridiculous,pretentious load of rubbish. I was determined to finish this book out of a sense of duty to...I'm not sure who or what. The journey/travelogue from WWII was in order to demonstrate..what exactly? The author's familiarity with Florence, Italian food, the weather...? No idea. The series of coincidences is preposterous nd the characters were absurd pastiches with absolutely nothing credible about any of them. The preponderance of gay themes was gratuitous and presumably reflects the authorz

95 people found this helpful

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A. Bear

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2021

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I'm still reading this beautiful book, eking it out as I don't want the story to end. Like all of Sarah's books this is a story that I know will live on in me. I can't write a clever critical review as it feels too close to my own story, I would just say, read it.

UPDATE: 08.09.21 Well I finished the book and it stands alongside Sarah's other three books. I adored the writing, happily embraced the magic of both talking trees and parrot and just kept wishing that this was how the world was then and how the world should be now. I've read some rather spiteful one star reviews with thinly veiled queer-bashing and they underline even more why Sarah's writing and Sarah's world view is so important.
Some people seem to think that fiction should be indiscernible from non-fiction though I can't think why they would! I love that Sarah's novels operate in a magical/realist landscape and that chance meeting and coincidence can turn the story round: I find it interesting that we accept coincidences in life but not fiction and I find it fascinating that chance plays such a huge role in our lives but some people insist that there is no place for it in the novel - go back to reading non-fiction I say and leave us dreamers alone.

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Nicholls Anne

Simply wonderful!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2021

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I dithered about buying this book for a while, and I am so glad I did. At first the lack of speech marks put me off reading the book, as I am a grammar nut, but I soon got used to the conversations that flowed without the need for inverted commas. It was a little hard to get into at first, the London part a bit bizarre, to be honest, but once the story line took me to Florence, the book came alive for me. It is a wonderful evocation of different types of people, all linked in bizarre ways by the end, with Florence, a city I know well, accurately described. The horrendous flooding that occurred is so well depicted and having been there after the waters receded at the time, I know how devastating an event it was for the inhabitants of the city. The story is at times uplifting, bizarre, humorous, one that will live long in the memory when the final page is turned.

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Malcolm Breeze

A book to please everyone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2021

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I came across this book whilst reading the Daily Mail book review section. It certainly received a good review so, I thought I'd give it a try, I'm so pleased that I did. From start to finish I was captivated. I chuckled, I laughed out loud and I had moist eyes on more than one occasion.
The characters are wonderfully loveable, the storyline tugs the heart strings, and the art, history and Italian geography knowledge is a joy to behold.

I can honestly say this is one of the most enjoyable books I've read in years. So much so I've since purchased more from Sarah Winman and I am currently enjoying When God was a rabbit. I highly recommend Still life, well worth a read.

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Julie Warren

Poor!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2021

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Pretentious rubbish!!
Who is giving these books 5 stars. Have they ever read a really good book??

26 people found this helpful

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Sandra L

A frustrating read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2022

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I had such high hopes for this - Florence, art history what could go wrong? To be honest nearly everything for me. I didn’t like the lack of quotation marks in the dialogue and frequently found the conversations very obtuse, having to re-read to see what exactly was being said. Didn’t like or believe in any of the characters or the overly saccharine view of the relationships. Hated the continued use of 'kid' in reference to the precocious child character and then there’s the parrot and trees. I kept expecting the whole thing to come together and really grab me, but unfortunately at almost half way through I just can’t face any more.

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