Tin Man

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What to expect

The beautiful and heartbreaking new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT.

'Her best novel to date' Observer
'An exquisitely crafted tale of love and loss' Guardian
'A marvel' Sunday Express
'Astoundingly beautiful' Matt Haig

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things.

And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael,
who are inseparable.
And the boys become men,
and then Annie walks into their lives,
and it changes nothing and everything.

Tin Man sees Sarah Winman follow the acclaimed success of When God Was A Rabbit and A Year Of Marvellous Ways with a love letter to human kindness and friendship, loss and living.

(P)2017 Headline Publishing Group Limited

Critics Review

  • The writing is powerful and yet understated, whether in Winman’s observations about relationships or her evocations of landscapes. With her skilful command of language and deep emotional insight, Winman has produced in the exquisitely crafted Tin Man her best novel to date.

    Observer
  • This is an astoundingly beautiful book. It drips with tenderness. It breaks your heart and warms it all at once

    Matt Haig
  • [Tin Man] is a marvel, full of love, longing and loss, huge emotions described in such a beautifully understated way that their impact is all the more powerful

    Sunday Express (S Magazine)
  • An exquisitely crafted tale of love and loss

    Guardian
  • It’s exquisite. There are stories you just feel privileged to read. Sarah’s writing breaks you and heals you, all in the same moment, and I haven’t been so moved, and so in love with a book and its characters in a very long time

    Joanna Cannon, author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP
  • Tin Man may be a short novel, at just 195 pages, but it packs an enormous punch

    Independent

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