![]() ![]() Ellis’s tyrant of a father, Leonard, tells her not to dare hang the painting and she, finally, stands up to him. The novel opens in Oxford, England, in the 1950s, with a story about how Ellis’s mother, Dora, came to acquire a reproduction of the Van Gogh painting Sunflowers at a Christmas raffle. I didn’t believe she was going to find it and was amazed, enthralled - and brought to helpless tears - when she did. I understood as I read about Ellis that Winman was drilling for hope. ![]() ![]() In the first half of the novel she offers an outsider’s view of Ellis, a middle-aged widower who exemplifies all that can be lost at a moment’s notice. There’s no magical realism to be found, but rather a drilling down through the cold layers of life. Gone is the somewhat more playful tone of her first two novels. Tin Man, the third novel from internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman ( When God Was a Rabbit, A Year of Marvellous Ways), contains all the complex characterization and emotional astonishments expected from her by now, but there are also departures from her trademark style. ![]()
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