«Inspiring ... How fragile we are, she notes, how fleeting our joys ... Describes a way of living now familiar to many of us»

TRACEY THORNE, New Statesman

«A moving account of living with a chronic illness»

Independent

«In all honesty, I've never come across a new writer with more to offer the world»

MELISSA HARRISON

«A profound redefinition of the very idea of vitality»

Financial Times

«Audacious, exuberant ... I can’t think of many books where the reader feels so passionately on the side of the narrator»

Guardian

«A Still Life is that rarest of things: a memoir that reads like a novel. In a world where we are continually made to think bigger is better, Josie reminds us of the joy to be found from a small, quiet life. Full of kindness, A Still Life will make you a better person»

CLARE MACKINTOSH

«This book would always have found a loyal readership – its vivid prose and meticulous, kindly candour ensure it. But coming now, at a time when record numbers have been struggling with their own ill-health and when many more have been forced to slow down, it feels like a manifesto for recalibrating»

Daily Mail

«Could not be more timely ... Josie is an immensely talented writer and thinker who sees a world in a grain of sand and we're all made richer for it ... I hope it’s a bestseller»

LINDA GRANT

«Josie George is the kind of writer I strive to be: meticulous and exacting in her documenting of joy and pain, and how those are the same thing. George sees things other people miss, and that's the point: it's about noticing, about seeing, about learning to see. A tough, tender, beautiful book about existing in a body in the world. I loved it»

ELLA RISBRIDGER

«This memoir feels like the book we all need right now»

Good Housekeeping

«An exquisitely pitched memoir of disability and living with chronic pain, but also of finding joy and wonder»

Bookseller, Editor's Choice