Book review: Tin Man by Sarah Winman
Friday, October 06, 2017
Up to the time of writing this I have read neither one of them. I joined her fan club only with her third novel, Tin Man which I finished last week. I have now bought her first two books so I will be on a Winman binge for a couple of weeks which is a lovely thing to look forward to.
I usually do not review non-African books for this column, but I think as writers we can learn a lot from Tin Man and also it is a fabulous book. In the first scene of the book we find Ellis’ mother taking a stand for herself against her bullying husband when she wins a raffle and, though her husband wants her to choose the expensive bottle of whiskey, she instead takes the reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflower painting. She then defiantly hangs it in their sitting room and warns the husband not to touch it. He never does.
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