![]() ![]() "Our lives were quite complete in that little framework that lives are." "I wasn't really aware of the university when I was staying with my grandparents," she says, sitting across from me in a Dublin hotel. It was so near and yet so far away from the Oxford often depicted in literature and films. Her grandfather worked in the Cowley car plant. She grew up in Essex but her grandparents lived in east Oxford - a working-class area when she was a child. ![]() Winman has a personal link with the car factory in the book. But the words also evoke The Wizard of Oz, and while Ellis - the novel's tin man - does have a heart, it's very broken, and in order to heal he must go on a journey he must follow the yellow brick road. Her third and latest book is called Tin Man, which is a reference to a character's job as a panel beater in a car factory. ![]() The title of her bestselling first novel, When God Was a Rabbit, pinpoints something childlike and surreal, as well as having a meaningful place within the story. ![]()
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