It's almost a love story. But it's not that simple...
The unforgettable and achingly tender new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the worldwide bestseller When God Was a Rabbit, about love in all its forms. The story of love, friendship, but also loneliness and understanding will reverberate in you long after reading it.
It all starts with a picture won in a raffle: and the fifteen sunflowers will be hung on the wall by a woman who believes that boys and men are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who are inseparable. And the boys become men, and then Annie comes into their lives and that changes everything and nothing.
In Sunflowers, Sarah Winman continues the poetics of her famous novels When God Was a Rabbit (2012) and The Year of Miracles (2016). Its heroes seek answers to questions: "What would our lives be like under different conditions? In a different environment? In another situation? How would it unfold?" The story of three people bound by friendship who end up alone.
