1944, Italy. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share extraordinary evening.

Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. She has come to salvage paintings from the wreckage of war and relieve memories oh her youth when her heart was stolen by an Italian maid in a particular room with a view. Ulysses's chance encounter with Evelyn will transform his life - all those who love him back home in London - forever.

Big-hearted and sweeping, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, the families we forge and friendships that make us.