Still Life

Autor: Sarah Winman

Sweeping, “big-hearted” historical fiction that chronicles an unlikely group of people who form a chosen family in post-war London and Florence.  The story begins in a ruined Tuscan villa’s wine cellar in 1944. A young, shell-shocked British soldier named Ulysses Temper has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a 64-year-old art historian and possible spy. Over a single extraordinary evening, they discuss art, beauty, and E.M. Forster, an encounter that profoundly shapes the rest of Ulysses’s life.