Mateship with Birds Author: Carrie Tiffany

Product Details: ISBN: 9781742610764 Format: Paperback Pages: 224 Dims (mm): 136 x 208 Pub Date: 01-02-12 Pub Country: Australia Condition: NEW

Description: On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song. As Harry watches the birds, his next door neighbour has her own set of binoculars trained on him. Ardent, hard-working Betty has escaped to the country with her two fatherless children. Betty is pleased that her son, Michael, wants to spend time with the gentle farmer next door. But when Harry decides to teach Michael about the opposite sex, perilous boundaries are crossed. Mateship with Birds is a novel about young lust and mature love. It is a hymn to the rhythm of country life - to vicious birds, virginal cows, adored dogs and ill-used sheep. On one small farm in a vast, ancient landscape, a collection of misfits question the nature of what a family can be. Longlisted for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner of the inaugural Stella Prize Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2013 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2012 Shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award

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