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Sarah Winman: Tin Man

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The Importance of Storytelling

You were an actor, weren't you? But you're inhabiting those characters in a very natural way. And it's a very good example of that scene of a normal meeting. The grandson is going to live with his grandmother, but it's a workaday moment. Yet there is the drama of the snow,. and we know that there is something electric in this encounter, don't we? You don't have to have a role of drums to make the point. It's always the setting of the scene. So the snow is falling. Snow is amazingly evocative. What it's doing, it sets the scene of magic straight away... I've used it many times before.

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