LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014

THENEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER

Still Life with Bread Crumbsbegins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.

Brilliantly written, powerfully observed,Still Life with Bread Crumbsis a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined.

Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, non-fiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of seven novels:Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, andStill Life with Bread Crumbs. Her memoirLots of Candles,Plenty of Cake,published in 2012, was a number oneNew York Timesbestseller. Her bookA Short Guide to a Happy Lifehas sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at theNew York Timesshe won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections,Living Out LoudandThinking Out Loud. HerNewsweekcolumns were collected inLoud and Clear.