amyheap 's review for:

Still Life by Sarah Winman

4.0

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Evelyn Skinner is an art historian, in Italy during the War to save paintings when she spends a glorious evening with a couple of soldiers, one called Ulysses Temper with whom she shares a lasting connection. The story follow them both in London and Florence, in a magical and whimsical story about the beauty of life. Full of eccentric characters, glorious settings, and historical detail, it’s about love of all kinds, and the things that bind people together. E.M. Forster also features, so it was almost the perfect book for me, but was perhaps a little heavy on the whimsy, and taking place over so many years perhaps didn’t quite give the depth of character development that might have caused them to burrow further into my heart.