Still Life: A GMA Book Club Pick

By Sarah Winman

Book Overview

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A Veranda Magazine Book Club Pick A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and set off on a course of events that will shape Ulysses's life for the next four decades. As Ulysses returns home to London, reimmersing himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parot--a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics--he carries his time in Italy with him. And when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate, and returns to the Tuscan hills. With beautiful prose, extraordinary tenderness, and bursts of humor and light, Still Life is a sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a deeply drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593330757
• ISBN13: 9780593330753
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful

I loved this book and the characters that brought it to life. Love, family, destiny, travel, heartbreak. This story has it all. I thought it was beautiful and heartfelt. Absolutely recommend.