THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKWINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD
âSheer joy' Graham Norton
âUtterly beautiful ⊠filled with hopeâ Joanna Cannon, author ofThree Things About Elsie
âA gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spiritsâDaily Mirror
From the author of and, is a big-hearted story of the families we forge and the friendships that make us.When God was a RabbitTin ManStill Life
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. Ulyssesâ chance encounter with Evelyn will transform his life â and all those who love him back home in London â forever.
Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship.Still Life
âTHE most beautiful book ⊠it will stay with me a long timeâ Sara Cox, BBC Twoâs Between the Covers
âExtraordinary . . . my book of the yearâ Liz Nugent, author ofOur Little Cruelties
âMoving, wise, poetic and funnyâDaily Mail
âWinmanâs pages teem with boisterous, exuberant lifeâSunday Times
Sunday Times bestseller 09/06/2021
