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Tin Man

Tin Man

Author(s): Sarah Winman

Location(s): Oxford, London, The South of France (Le Midi)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Second half 20th Century

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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.

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Author: tripfiction

A slim novel that charts the friendship – nay, something deeper, the relationship – between Ellis and Michael, and then Annie when she becomes Ellis’s wife. Tin Man? There are references to The Yellow...

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