THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021
A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
WINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD

‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton

‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie

’A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits’ Daily Mirror

From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of the families we forge and the friendships that make us.

1944, Italy. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening.

Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. She has come to salvage paintings from the wreckage of war and relive memories of her youth when her heart was stolen by an Italian maid in a particular room with a view. Ulysses’ chance encounter with Evelyn will transform his life – and all those who love him back home in London – forever.

Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship.

‘THE most beautiful book … it will stay with me a long time’ Sara Cox, BBC Two’s Between the Covers

‘Extraordinary . . . my book of the year’ Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties

‘Moving, wise, poetic and funny’ Daily Mail

‘Winman’s pages teem with boisterous, exuberant life’ Sunday Times

Sunday Times bestseller 09/06/2021

*A Richard & Judy Bookclub Pick Spring 2016*

A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS is the unforgettable and completely captivating new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller (2015).

Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it.

Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid.

A Year of Marvellous Ways is a glorious, life-affirming story about the magic in everyday life and the pull of the sea, the healing powers of storytelling and sloe gin, love and death and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels.

Discover the captivating first novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Still Life.

'Gloriously offbeat . . . beautifully true' THE TIMES

'A fabulously quirky novel' WOMAN & HOME

'Funny, recognizably true and heartbreaking' STYLIST

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD

From the internationally bestselling author of WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT comes a heartbreaking celebration of love in all its forms, and the moments that illuminate the life of one man.

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

'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.

Available together for the first time, Sarah Winman's first two stunning novels, WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS. Discover one of the UK's most eloquent and moving writers through her Sunday Times bestselling, critically acclaimed literary sensations.

'Winman's narrative voice is beautifully true' The Times

If you've never read the phenomenon that is WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT, now is your chance. It's a book about a brother and sister. It's a book about childhood and growing up, friendships and families, triumph and tragedy and everything in between. More than anything, it's a book about love in all its forms.

Then experience the sheer joy of A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS, a book that Rosamund Lupton described as 'a glorious poem of a novel'. This is a story about Marvellous Ways, an eighty-nine-year-old woman who sits by a creek in Cornwall, waiting for a last adventure. It's about Francis Drake, a young soldier who washes up there, reeling from war and broken-hearted. It's about the magic in everyday life and the lure of the sea, and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels.

Two stories. Two journeys. Two reading experiences you'll never forget.

An exclusive free sample from Sarah Winman's new novel, A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS.

From the author of the bestselling WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT comes this spellbinding new novel.

Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it.

Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid.

A Year of Marvellous Ways is a glorious, life-affirming story about the magic in everyday life and the pull of the sea, the healing powers of storytelling and sloe gin, love and death and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels.

Comincia tutto con un dipinto vinto a una riffa: quindici girasoli, appesi a una parete da una donna che crede nel fatto che gli uomini e i ragazzi siano capaci di cose bellissime.

E poi ci sono due dodicenni, Ellis e Michael, che diventano amici inseparabili. Per un bel pezzo sono solo loro due. Gironzolano in bicicletta per le strade di Oxford, imparano a nuotare, scoprono poesie e schivano i ceffoni di padri tirannici.

E poi i ragazzi diventano uomini e intanto questa amicizia diventa qualcosa di più.

Quando nelle loro vite fa il suo ingresso Annie, cambia tutto e non cambia nulla.

Sarah Winman, l'autrice di un bestseller internazionale come Quando Dio era un coniglio, ci regala un libro intenso e indimenticabile che celebra quegli attimi quasi impercettibili che danno un senso e una direzione alla vita di ciascuno di noi.

L'uomo di latta più che un romanzo è una fiaba incantata e struggente, fatta di ricordi. Una sorta di lunga emozionante lettera d'amore che ci parla dell'amicizia, della bellezza e del dolore: che ci parla, insomma, della vita.

À la mort de sa mère, menacé par un père violent qui lui reproche son manque de virilité, Ellis trouve refuge chez une femme généreuse, qui a déjà pris sous son aile un autre garçon : Michael. Ils étaient amis, les voilà frères, et surtout inséparables. Alors qu’ils deviennent des hommes, l’attirance qu’ils éprouvent l’un pour l’autre se précise. Ils quittent Bristol et font un grand pas vers le soleil pour passer des vacances dans le Midi, là où la lumière et la vie sont si intenses, là où poussent les tournesols si chers à la mère d’Ellis, là où, peut-être, ils seraient libres de s’aimer. Mais c’est compter sans le train du retour, qu’on prendra quand même, la mort dans l’âme, et sans cette femme qu’Ellis va rencontrer. Michael peut-il vraiment se contenter d’être le témoin de leur mariage ?

Une ode lumineuse et poignante à la générosité humaine, à l’amitié et à la persistance du souvenir.

« Le meilleur de Sarah Winman ! » - The Observer
« Une histoire d’amour et de deuil d’une grande délicatesse. » - The Guardian
« Une merveille ! » - Sunday Express
« D’une beauté étourdissante. » - Matt Haig