Tin Man by Sarah Winman

Tin Man

by Sarah Winman

From the bestselling author of STILL LIFE
*As featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read*

This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that.

It begins with 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.

'Packs an enormous punch' Independent

'Exquisite. I haven't been so moved and so in love with a book and its characters for a very long time'
Joanna Cannon

'This book is why I read' Nina Pottell, Prima

'Ephemeral yet powerful... Every fleeting moment is worth repeating, again and again' Stylist

Reviewed by Bianca on

4.5 of 5 stars

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I’m broken by my need for others. By the erotic dance of memory that pounces when loneliness falls.


A love letter on loss and loneliness. On longing for that kind of connection you once shared with another person, just like how the Tin Man in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was looking for the heart he lost.

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