Sarah Winman

From acclaimed author of Tin Man, Sarah Winman, comes a captivating new novel of people brought together across four decades of love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster. Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English solder, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a Tuscan villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth in Florence, her lost love, and a surprising friendship with a young E. M. Forster. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amongst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and set off on a course of events that will shape Ulysses's life for the next four decades. As he returns home to the East End of London, reimmersing himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parrot--a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics--Ulysses carries his time in Italy with him. And when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate and returns to the Tuscan hills. With gorgeous prose and extraordinary tenderness, Still Life is a richly drawn tapestry of the individuals who come together to make a family, and a sweeping portrait of beauty and love.

Still Life

"This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast-forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question: What happened in the years between?"--

Tin Man

A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS is the unforgettable and completely captivating new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT. Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid. A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS is a glorious, life-affirming story about the magic in everyday life and the pull of the sea, the healing powers of storytelling and sloe gin, love and death and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels.

A Year of Marvellous Ways

Sarah Winman's bestselling, critically-acclaimed debut novel WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT continues to captivate and enchant readers. The Sunday Times bestseller This is a book about a brother and sister. It's a book about childhood and growing up, friendships and families, triumph and tragedy and everything in between. More than anything, it's a book about love in all its forms.

The Richard and Judy Bestseller

When God was a Rabbit

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD The beautiful and heartbreaking new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT. 'Her best novel to date' Observer 'An exquisitely crafted tale of love and loss' Guardian 'A marvel' Sunday Express 'Astoundingly beautiful' Matt Haig It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who are inseparable. And the boys become men, and then Annie walks into their lives, and it changes nothing and everything. Tin Man sees Sarah Winman follow the acclaimed success of When God Was A Rabbit and A Year Of Marvellous Ways with a love letter to human kindness and friendship, loss and living.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME PICK 'Sheer joy' Graham Norton, author of Home Stretch 'Utterly beautiful ... filled with hope' Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie 'A bear-hug of a book' Rachel Joyce, author of Miss Benson's Beetle From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster. 1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the wreckage and relive 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. 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. Moving from the Tuscan Hills and piazzas of Florence, to the smog of London's East End, Still Life is a sweeping, joyful novel about beauty, love, family and fate. 'Four course nourishment for all Winman fans' Patrick Gale, author of Take Nothing With You 'Extraordinary . . . my book of the year' Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties 'The kind of story that bolsters the heart and soul' Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers Sunday Times bestseller 09/06/2021

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O Homem de Lata

Vapaalla oleva sairaanhoitaja auttoi minut maailmaan vanhempieni makuuhuoneessa arpajaisissa voitetun untuvapeitteen päällä. Nopean kahdenkymmenenkahden minuutin synnytyksen jälkeen pääni tuli näkyviin ja hoitaja käski ponnistamaan ja isäni käski ponnistamaan, ja niinpä äitini ponnisti ja minä pullahdin kevyesti tuohon tarunhohtoiseen vuoteen. Kun Pariisin kadut vallattiin. Kun Vietnamissa tehtiin Tet-hyökkäys. Kun Martin Luther King kuoli unelmansa puolesta.Veli ja sisko.Tarina lapsuudesta ja varttumisesta, ystävyydestä ja perheestä, rakkaudesta ja tragediasta ja kaikesta siltä väliltä.Tarina uusista aluista."Ennakkoaavistus huikeasta kirjasta osoittautui oikeaksi. Se tunne, kun tietää rakastavansa kirjaa ennen kuin on lukenut ensimmäistä sivua loppuun oli vahva ja kesti viimeiseen sivuun asti." villasukkakirjahyllyssa.blogspot.fi 14.10.2012"Kani nimeltä jumala oli ilmestyessään kotimaassaan kirjallinen tapaus. Ei ihme, sillä Winman tavoittaa täydellisesti lapsen tavan hahmottaa maailmaa. Romaanin viehätys on autenttisessa lapsuuskuvauksessa" Martta Kaukonen, Ilona 2012/42"Takakansi houkutti lukemaan koko kirjan. Ja hyvä, että houkutti. Winmanilla on miellyttävä tapa kertoa tarinaansa. Kaikkea ei selitetä puhki, vaan lukijalle jätetään tilaa oivaltaa ja ymmärtää. Kani nimeltä jumala on kirja, johon voisi tarttua sellainenkin, joka ei yleensä kovin paljon kirjoja lue." Jaana Vieno, Länsi Suomi 3.11.2012"Kirja on kantaaottava, mutta ei lainkaan raskas, vaikka siinä kamalia asioita tapahtuukin. Pikemminkin se herättää toivoa ja uskoa siihen, että huominen tulee kyllä. Se on myös ylistyslaulu ystävyydelle ja uusille mahdollisuuksille. Siinä on kerrassaan hurmaavat henkilöhahmot ja kiinnostava juoni. Tätä mieleenpainuvaa kirjaa on helppo suositella itseasiassa lähes minkälaiselle lukijalle tahansa." Tuulia, lukutuulia.blogspot.fi 8.10.2012

Kani nimeltä Jumala

Lohdullinen kertomus rakkaudesta, merestä ja pitkästä elämästä

Merenneidon vuosi

Quandio dio era un coniglio

Lumea lui Elly este modelată de cei care o locuiesc: părinții iubitori, dar teribil de neatenți; cea mai bună prietenă, care miroase permanent a chipsuri și care știe cuvinte sofisticate; un vecin bătrân care-i face avansuri; iepurele pe care l-a botezat „dumnezeu“. Într-o copilărie condimentată cu momente deopotrivă obișnuite și extraordinare, singura constantă în viața lui Elly este fratele ei. Douăzeci de ani mai târziu, Elly și Joe sunt adulți, dar îi unește aceeași legătură puternică din copilărie. Până când, într-o dimineață senină, un eveniment cutremurător amenință să le distrugă pentru totdeauna relația. Începută la sfârșitul anilor 1960 și pendulând între Essex, coasta sălbatică a Cornwallului și străzile din New York, povestea lui Elly este o poveste despre copilărie, despre prietenie, despre partea întunecată a dragostei și a sexului, despre forța legăturilor de familie. Mai mult decât orice, este o poveste despre dragoste, în toate formele ei. Sarah Winman (n. 1964) este actriță și scriitoare britanică. A crescut în Essex și a urmat cursurile Academiei de Arte Dramatice Webber Douglas, apoi a urmat o carieră în teatru, film și televiziune. În 2011, romanul ei de debut Când Dumnezeu era iepure a devenit bestseller internațional, iar autoarea a câștigat mai multe premii, printre care se numără Galaxy National Book Award, secțiunea New Writer of the Year. Locuiește în Londra.

Când Dumnezeu era iepure

Коли Бог був Кроликом

When God Was a Rabbit is the story of a memorable young heroine, Elly, and her loss of innocence; a magical portrait of the pull and power of family ties, of loss and life. From Essex and Cornwall to the streets of New York, from 1968 to the events of 9/11, When God Was a Rabbit follows the evolving bond of love and secrets between Elly and her brother, Joe, and her increasing concern for her best friend, Jenny Penny, who has secrets of her own. Funny, quirky, utterly compelling, and poignant, too, When God Was a Rabbit heralds the start of a remarkable new literary career.

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When God Was a Rabbit

Set between World War II and the 1980s, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted story of strangers brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Tin Man and When God Was a Rabbit. In the wine-cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allies advance and bombs fall around them, two people meet and share an extraordinary evening: Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier from London's East End; Evelyn Skinner is a worldly older art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to rescue paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered E.M. Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view. Evelyn's talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses's mind that night, one that will shape the trajectory of his life--and the lives of those who love him--for the next four decades. Moving from war-ravaged Tuscany to the boozy confines of The Stoat and Parrot pub in London and the piazzas of post-war Florence, Still Life is both sweeping and intimate, mischievous and deeply felt. It is a novel about beauty, love and fate, about the things that make life worth living, and the things we're prepared to die for.

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man. Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and set off on a course of events that will shape Ulysses's life for the next four decades. As Ulysses returns home to London, reimmersing himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parot—a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics—he carries his time in Italy with him. And when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate, and returns to the Tuscan hills. With beautiful prose, extraordinary tenderness, and bursts of humor and light, Still Life is a sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a deeply drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms.

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