Still Life with Bread Crumbs is the latest novel by Anna Quindlen, and perhaps her best.

It is the story of Rebecca Winter, an aging photographer from NYC, famous in her younger days, but now short of money and living alone in a run down cottage in the country. She is lonely and a bit lost when we meet her, but this is a story of redemption and second chances.

What could have been an ordinary, even forgettable story is made memorable by Quindlen’s wonderful writing, spare prose and humor. I loved this book, and didn’t want it to end.