'A very unusual sensibility and a burning subject matter have come together here. Behind this impressive, significant novel stands the question: what is a life, if it is not lived in freedom?' – Guardian the characters are so well drawn and the plot so well paced, I couldn’t put it down.' – Daily Telegraph I’m not sure I’ve ever missed the world of a book as much as I miss To Paradise now I’ve left it.' – Observer 'After the painfully affecting To Paradise gives us three stories far apart in space and time but each unique in their power to summon the joy and complexity of love, the pain of loss. ‘Winman’s pages teem with boisterous, exuberant life’ Sunday Times ‘Moving, wise, poetic and funny’ Daily Mail my book of the year’ Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties ‘THE most beautiful book … it will stay with me a long time’ Sara Cox, BBC Two’s Between the Covers
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Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship. Ulysses’ chance encounter with Evelyn will transform his life – and all those who love him back home in London – forever. 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 Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening. ’A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits’ Daily Mirrorįrom 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.ġ944, Italy.
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'A great read, fabulous characters, short sharp chapters. 'I would give the novel ten stars were it possible' 'Enthralling, terrifying, moving' LEE SMITH 'Like having Dolly in the room with you' VAL McDERMID RUN ROSE RUN: a story glittering with danger and desire.Īlso available: an album of 12 original Dolly Parton songs made for the novel! It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her.
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