Still Lives: The stunning Reese Witherspoon Book Club mystery

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This is a wonderful character driven story of kindred spirits which takes us on an emotional journey from Florence to the East End of London. In 1944 Evelyn Skinner and Margaret Somebody or other meet Private Ulysses Temper of the 8th Army in the Tuscan Hills. Evelyn and Ulysses form a connection and a bond that will remain for many years. Meanwhile in London, Uly’s wife Peg is enduring the war years as best she can with some ‘comforting’ from Eddie an American soldier. Post war the action alternates between the two areas - in London it centres on The Stoat and Parot with landlord Col and wonderful customers like Cress and Pete. In 1627 Lievens also painted a similar work titled, Vanitas still life. In the painting he used a skull, a violin, an extinguished candle and an hourglass, ostensibly to illustrate mortality. The painting was also attributed to Rembrandt for many years until a 2014 examination by experts at the Rijksmuseum determined that it was the work of Lievens. [10] Reception [ edit ]

Fast forward to after the war, Massimo, an Italian lawyer, presents Ulysses with the opportunity to return to Florence and see where it takes him.

This story is the kind of historical fiction I love. It’s full of art, love, friendships, and mouth-watering descriptions of Italian food. I may or may not have shed a few tears while reading it. A] splendid art–world thriller . . . Ms. Hummel captures characters in a single stroke . . . Having herself worked in a museum, she speaks with authority of that sealed world . . . Still Livesis both savvy and lyrical—the perfect beach read for either coast.”— The Wall Street Journal

There are moments in life so monumental and still that the memory can never be retrieved without a catch to the throat or an interruption to the beat of the heart. Can never be retrieved without the rumbling disquiet of how close that moment came to not having happened at all”. In the image there is a lute case, which resembles a lute. The images of books display the bindings and they have soft covers of either leather or parchment. These books are used primarily for keeping documents or bills. [1] The books are portrayed as empty bindings without substance. [8] The items in the image all appear to be old and discarded things. In the image there is a pewter jug, and a pewter plate with bread roll. There are two globes and just above the lute case on the wall there is a palette. [1] Maria Hummel's Still Livesis moody and restless, propelled by a gradually intensifying sense of unease. Hummel envelops the reader in the LA art scene . . . Her journey illuminates the misogyny which allows a culture to turn murdered women into objects for consumption.”— BuzzFeed, 1 of 30 Exciting New Books to Add to your Summer Reading Lista b c d e "Still Life with Books, Jan Lievens, c. 1627 - c. 1628". Rijksmuseum. Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap. Archived from the original on 26 January 2023 . Retrieved 4 March 2023. Her mother was the knot that stopped the fraying. That’s what she learned later, and learned it the hard way, too late to say thank you truly” (223).