Tin Man by Sarah Winman

Tin Man by Sarah WinmanSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD The beautiful and heartbreaking new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT. '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

an evangelical Christian

right in the heart of the city

'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival

making it an ideal pocket-sized travelling companion

Her sensitivity to their strengths and weaknesses

A Wimmera-country boy

and love have no limits

Their father

but the lack of care

It examines Australia's system of criminal justice - the web of laws and courts and police and prisons - and how that system interacts with First Nations people and communities

he was living his dream

Twenty years later