The author of the hit 2021 novel Still Life explains why she wrote 'a love letter to Italy' at a time when Britain was turning its back on Europe.
When English author Sarah Winman sits down to write, she never has a plot in mind – and yet she's brought the acclaimed When God Was a Rabbit, Tin Man, and A Year of Marvellous Ways to the world.
Still Life struck the hearts and imaginations of readers around the world, making persuasive arguments for the transformative power of beauty.Winman says she'd actually been thinking about Brexit, and how it illuminated what she calls a "disdain for otherness". "I write books that … I want people to still believe in the goodness of others, and the freedom that is out there by crossing the Channel," she says.
In November 1966, Florence flooded as the Arno burst its banks, killing 101 people and destroying countless cultural artefacts.
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