About the author

British author Sarah Winman was born and raised in the eastern suburbs of London and trained and worked as an actor before she wrote her best-selling, award-winning debut novel When God Was

A Rabbit 10 years ago. “I refer to myself as a storyteller rather than a novelist,” she tells

The Weekly, adding that as a child “I wasn’t a big reader”, preferring to make up games.

Still Life is her fourth novel. “I tend to see books in a very cinematic way. In many of my scenes I can visualise where the camera would be and what or who the lens would be focused on. I’ve especially employed that technique in

Still Life,” she says.