Still Life - Paperback

by A. S. Byatt (Author)

From the author of The New York Times best seller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art.

Stephanie Potter gives up a promising academic career to marry Daniel Orton, while her sister, Frederica, enters Cambridge, and her brother, Marcus, begins recovering from a nervous breakdown.

Author Biography

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known professionally by her former marriage name as A. S. Byatt, is a novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. The Times named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.