In Tuscany, 1944, as bombs fall and Allied forces advance, young English soldier Ulysses Temper meets Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian salvaging beauty from the ruins of war. Their brief but profound encounter sparks a connection that shapes Ulysses’s life for decades. Back in postwar London, surrounded by the eccentric regulars of The Stoat and Parrot pub, Ulysses carries the memory of Italy with him—until an unexpected inheritance calls him back to the Tuscan hills. Still Life is a tender, humorous, and sweeping novel about love, art, and the families we create, celebrating beauty in even the darkest times.
