Still Life

There's a lot about this book that I really enjoyed, the raw emotional heart of it shines through on every page. The writing itself I found a little difficult; the time jumps without shift in tone make it quite disorienting and difficult to tell where we are occasionally, and that's not necessarily an issue in itself but I did sometimes find myself focusing on context clues to figure out what time period we were in and missing the emotion of the story because of it. I also found the dialogue confusing at times, especially when there were more than 2 people speaking.

Overall, a wonderful debut from a promising author I would love to read more from in future.

Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for the ARC