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Sarah Winman (Author, Narrator), Tinder Press (Publisher)

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The unforgettable and achingly tender new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international best seller When God Was a Rabbit and the Sunday Times Top 10 best seller A Year of Marvellous Ways.

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: 15 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 couldn't be closer. And the boys become men, and then they meet Annie, 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.

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4 hours and 43 minutes
Author

Sarah Winman
Narrator

Sarah Winman
Audible release date

27 July 2017
Language

English
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Tinder Press
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B01N29O15M
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	4 hours and 43 minutes
Author	Sarah Winman
Narrator	Sarah Winman
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	27 July 2017
Publisher	Tinder Press
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B01N29O15M
Best Sellers Rank	4,053 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 181 in Literary Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 759 in Literary Fiction (Books)

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Julie G

Gentle powerful love story between 3 people

Reviewed in Australia on 28 August 2018

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Set in Oxford against a background of family violence, loss, homophobia and the horror of AIDS, this is a beautiful story of 2 young boys whose friendship blossoms into teenage love and all that follows. Annie is the 3rd character whose arrival brings more love into this complex triangle and somehow makes it possible for Ellis and Michael to maintain their closeness as confused young men. However Michael has to explore his own sexuality and given the times, AIDS throws a deep shadow over his explorations. His retreat to the south of France in his grief is a particularly moving part of this book. Lest you think it is a grim story, there is light and sunshine and beauty throughout, represented by Ellis' mother and Michael's grandmother...glorious characters who understand these 2 tender young men and allow them to be who they are. Van Gogh is the other presence and his Sunflowers bring hope, warmth and light into the lives of these people whom we grow to love.

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Kirsten Jocumsen

Fantastic story, beautifully written!!

Reviewed in Australia on 30 December 2020

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One of the most beautifully written books I've ever read. Perfection! Great way to finish this huge year of reading. I'll be reading everything written by this author now!!

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tmdastoli

Extraordinary, beautiful and achingly wonderful.

Reviewed in Australia on 10 December 2017

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Exquisite writing, achingly beautiful words that weave though a story of love, loss and life. I lived the words, ached and wept and finally smiled...everyone should read this book.

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Raquel

Almost unbearably grim.

Reviewed in Australia on 24 May 2019

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The tone that runs through this novel is unrelenting melancholy. The landscape, the context, the language, the characters - all so desperately sad. Despite that, it was an engaging read... just not an uplifting one.

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Heather Howard

Not to be missed

Reviewed in Australia on 30 January 2018

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I loved this book so much I read everything that Sarah Winman has written. She is one of the best writers I have read in a long time. I will not even try to describe the book just read it.

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Anne Stubbings

Friendship or Love

Reviewed in Australia on 20 August 2017

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A beautiful, moving story of friendship and love. Superbly written, you love and feel the characters of the two boys/men, and the various women in their lives. Thoroughly recommend

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Mandy

Reality.

Reviewed in Australia on 15 November 2021

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Real people! Loved it.

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A life time

Reviewed in Australia on 21 March 2018

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A lovely story of intimacy friendship and love. But is it enough, sometimes our thoughts keep us away when we should be together.

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Lucille Grant

A most moving and beautifully written story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2017

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I can't do justice in a review to Sarah Winman's beautifully written new book. All I can say is that Tin Man is one of the most moving stories I've read recently (and I've read it twice since buying the book this summer).

Tin Man portrays love in all its forms, friendship and loss between three people: a young woman, Annie, and two men Ellis and Michael. It is told in two parts from the point of view of the two men and Annie's story is told through their eyes. It is written in the sharpest clearest prose. No word is wasted and yet the reader understands everything. The setting is Oxford between the 1970s and 1990s and the first part of the book is written from Ellis's point of view as a young man working at a car factory in Cowley. He remembers meeting Michael when they were twelve years old.The boys become inseparable friends, their relationship morphing into something stronger during their adolescence. Then Ellis falls in love and marries Annie. In the second half of the book, Michael disappears into a life of destructive gay relationships during the AIDs crisis.

For me there is much poignancy in all the characters' stories but most of all Annie's even though she is not given her own voice in the narrative.

Sarah Winman writes like a poet eg "What's a complement? Ellis asked. Complementing colours are ones that make the others stand out. Like blue and orange, said his mother. Like me and Ellis, said Michael. Yes, she smiled. Like you two." “And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.”

Please, just read this book. You won't regret it.

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Ismail Elshareef

Exquisite. Lyrical. Heartbreaking. Unforgettable.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2018

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THIS BOOK. This beautiful and tender story about first love captured me and my heart so completely reminding me of what it means to fall in love all over again. The writing, the words, the conjured images, the mood, the characters, their tenderness, their emotions, their tears, their palpable heartache, the first love, the disease, the trauma, the life were nothing short of epic. The kind that’s powerful, subtle and unforgettable.

For a short book (~200 pages), Tin Man packs a powerful punch. Every sentence matters. Every page is consequential. There are no frills in this book. I found myself writing on the margins, “so pretty”, “beautiful” and “wow”.

And I wonder what the sound of heart breaking might be. An I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.

And he remembered thinking he would never meet anyone like him again, and in that acknowledgment, he knew, was love.

And I asked you why you were staring at me.
And you said, I’m working if I should take a chance on you.
And I said. Yes. Yes, is the only answer.

There’s something about first love, isn’t there? She said. It’s untouchable to those who played no part in it. But it’s the measure of all that follows, she said.

The book is full of gems like these. Unforgettable prose describing unforgettable characters. Definitely, a new all-time favorite of mine up there with Year of Wonders, The Corrections, Middlesex, Call Me by Your Name, The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Bright Shiny Morning, H is for Hawk and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Let the Great World Spin to name a few. Highly recommend it.

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Mr. G. FINNIGAN

Very put downable, I had to stop reading about a quarter of the way into the story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2018

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I expected great things from this book given all of the reviews and awards however the first thing that struck me was how difficult it was to read with no punctuation at all. I kept getting lost off and confused with who was saying what. Because of this I even became confused about who was who. The story just was not interesting it just did not hold my attention. If a story cannot engage with me then I can't engage with it so after a little while I put the book down and never revisited it.

15 people found this helpful

Lucy Huntingford

Unrelatable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2018

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I know that this book has received a lot of praise but I really didn’t like it. It felt sketchy, more like a draft. Neither the story nor the characters were relatable or interesting. I could see the ambition to explore a range of issues but in my opinion execution was rather poor.

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Prerna Mishra

A unique tale of love and loss

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 June 2018

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“What keeps him alive, God only know, the memory of living, I suppose.”

Tin Man is a tale of “a once in a lifetime” love and profound loss. The story explores the relationship between Michael and Ellis and then between Michael, Ellis and Annie. The first part of the book presents the story from Ellis’s view and the second from Michael’s view. Annie is the thread that helps these dear friends maintain a beautiful bond in adulthood despite the events of their adolescence that would have made it very uncomfortable to do so. Van Gogh’s painting Sunflower forms the artistic foundation of the book, and ironically becomes a symbol of defiance as well as hope.

Wieman’s nuanced writing does justice to very sensitive topics like sexuality, death and the trauma of loneliness. She also uses an adequately compassionate tone for the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and the sufferings of those inflicted. The sentences are really short, especially in the first half of the book. It is symbolic of the void in Ellis’s life left by Annie and Michael and the muddle of emotions that he is going through as deals with his loss. The readers will feel a more composed writing in the second half of then book, because it is from Michael’s perspective, when he was trying to take measure of his life in light of his sexuality and the events that shaped him to be who he was. This juxtaposition through the style of writing was, in my opinion, a masterstroke from the writer.

This is the kind book that takes a while to grow on the readers, especially because of the taciturn nature of the first half. But when its firmly engraved in your psyshe, it will leave you with a lingering feeling of grief and compassion for those who lost because of who they were and who they chose to love. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for me it was a strong and impactful one!

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