On one small farm in a vast, ancient landscape, a collection of misfits question the nature of what a family can be. It is a hymn to the rhythm of country life - to vicious birds, virginal cows, adored dogs and ill-used sheep.
Mateship with Birds is a novel about young lust and mature love. But when Harry decides to teach Michael about the opposite sex, perilous boundaries are crossed. Betty is pleased that her son, Michael, wants to spend time with the gentle farmer next door. Her second novel, Mateship with Birds (2011), was awarded the inaugural Stella Prize and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premiers Literary. Ardent, hard-working Betty has escaped to the country with her two fatherless children. : Mateship with Birds (9781447219866) by Carrie Tiffany and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. As Harry watches the birds, his next door neighbour has her own set of binoculars trained on him. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song. 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. Spare, poetic and intensely visual, Exploded View is the powerful new novel from the author of Everymans Rules for Scientific Living and Mateship with Birds.
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