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Sarah Winman on art and beauty, unconventional families and what's next
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.
Readers everywhere fell in love with her characters in 2021's Still Life, but Winman says it's a mysterious process that helps bring them to the page.
"You know what, I don't know.
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I mean, I don't plot. So, you know, characters come to me slowly when I move people around," she told ABC RN's Big Weekend of Books.
Writing joy and hope
Still Life takes us to a place of great beauty that's in great crisis, opening in war-ravaged Italy in 1944 and progressing to flooded Florence in 1966.
It landed in the hands of readers who had just endured two years of COVID fatigue and uncertainty.
It was one of those books that arrived at the perfect time, but where did it come