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1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier; Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the wreckage and relive memories of the time she encountered EM Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view.

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: 15 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 couldn't be closer. And the boys become men, and then they meet Annie, 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.

Young Elly's world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but maddeningly distractible parents; a best friend who smells of chips and knows exotic words like 'slag'; an ageing fop who tapdances his way into her home, a Shirley Bassey impersonator who trails close behind; lastly, of course, a rabbit called God. In a childhood peppered with moments both ordinary and extraordinary, Elly's one constant is her brother Joe. Twenty years on, Elly and Joe are fully grown and as close as they ever were. Until, that is, an earth-shattering event that threatens to destroy their bond for ever.

A Year of Marvellous Ways is the much anticipated and utterly beguiling new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international best seller When God Was a Rabbit. Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a 90-year-old woman who's lived alone on a remote creek for nearly all her life. Recently 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.

Ulysses und Evelyn begegnen sich in einem italienischen Weinkeller und sprechen über Kunst und das Leben, zu einem Zeitpunkt, an dem die Schönheit in der Welt nicht leicht zu finden ist. Diese Begegnung knüpft zwischen ihnen ein lebenslanges Band der Freundschaft. Er ist ein junger britischer Soldat, sie ist eine sechzigjährige Kunsthistorikerin, die ihre geliebten Gemälde vor den Bomben des Zweiten Weltkriegs bewahren will.

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Toscana, 1944: mentre le truppe alleate avanzano e le bombe cadono intorno a villaggi deserti, un giovane soldato inglese, Ulysses Temper, si ritrova nella cantina di una villa abbandonata dove ha un incontro tanto casuale quanto straordinario con Evelyn Skinner. Evelyn è una studiosa di storia dell'arte di sessantaquattro anni, ed è venuta in Italia non solo per recuperare e - se possibile - salvare dipinti e opere d'arte tra le macerie dei bombardamenti, ma anche per rievocare ricordi di gioventù ormai semidimenticati.