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Still Life

Sarah Winman’s fourth novel is light yet satisfying, like foamed milk atop a cappuccino.

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Review of ‘Still Life’

“I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal,” Mr. Emerson tells Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forster’s novel A Room With a View. It’s a beautiful sentiment, one that Sarah Winman incorporates into Still Life, along with other enduring realities, such as the transcendence of art and the pain of war.

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