{"product_id":"still-life","title":"Still Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the bestselling, prize-winning author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood… and the ghost of E.M. Forster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe just need to know what the heart’s capable of, Evelyn.\u003cbr\u003eAnd do you know what it’s capable of?\u003cbr\u003eI do. Grace and fury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s 1944 and in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allied troops advance and bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUlysses Temper is a young British solider and one-time globe-maker, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered EM Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese two unlikely people find kindred spirits in each other and Evelyn’s talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses mind that will shape the trajectory of his life – and of those who love him – for the next four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving from the Tuscan Hills, to the smog of the East End and the piazzas of Florence, Still Life is a sweeping, mischievous, richly-peopled novel about beauty, love, family and fate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51513259917629,"sku":"9780008283391","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3135\/9805\/files\/9780008283391.jpg?v=1774053366","url":"https:\/\/bookclub.org.nz\/products\/still-life","provider":"Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}