It starts with a painting of fifteen sunflowers that was won in a lottery and is displayed on the wall by a woman who thinks boys and men are capable of creating beautiful things. Ellis and Michael are two more boys that are inseparable. When Annie enters their lives after the lads have grown into men, nothing and everything are changed. With Tin Man, Sarah Winman continues her run of critically praised bestsellers that includes When God was a rabbit and A Year of Marvellous Ways with a love letter to friendship, loss, and living.