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    Jun 16, 2021 4 minutes
    EDITED by JULIET RIEDEN

    LITERARY FICTION

    Still Life by Sarah Winman, HarperCollins

    If ever there was a literary hotel you long to check in to, the Florentine pensione at the pulsating heart of Sarah Winman’s new epic novel is that place. The award-winning author confesses that this story found her back in 2015, when she was on a trip to the Renaissance city. “I was having a late lunch in a neighbourhood restaurant when I noticed on the walls photographs of Florence underwater – what I came to know as the flood of 1966. The owner brought out books for me to look at and told me about the Mud Angels, the young men and women who

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