Mateship With Birds by Carrie Tiffany
Mateship n. the quality or state of being a mate; esp: fellowship On the outskirts of a country town in the early 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a raucous family of kookaburras roosting next to his dairy. As Harry observes the birds through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song, his neighbour, Betty, has her own set of binoculars trained on him. Betty's son, Michael, gravitates to the gentle man next door, and Harry, sensing Michael is ready to stretch his wings, decides to teach him about sex. Harry knows everything about the land. But what does he know about women? Mateship with Birds is a tender, witty novel of young lust and mature love. A glorious tale of innocence lost, it celebrates life on one small farm in a vast ancient landscape, as a collection of misfits question what a family might be.
Carrie Tiffany was born in Yorkshire and grew up in Perth, Western Australia. Her debut, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447219866 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447219864 |
| Title | Mateship With Birds |
| Author | Carrie Tiffany |
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| Publisher | Picador |
| Year published | 2012-06-21 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 (Ireland), Long-listed for Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 (UK) |
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