Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9780330544467 Number of pages: 224 Weight: 249 g Dimensions: 203 x 127 x 13 mm You may also be interested in. A glorious tale of innocence lost, it celebrates life on one small farm in a vast, ancient landscape, and a collection of misfits who question what a family might be. Mateship with Birds is a tender, witty novel of young lust and mature love. Last month her second novel, Mateship with birds, won the inaugural Stella Prize, and this month it won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards.It has also been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin award. Of Betty's two fatherless children, it is Michael who gravitates towards the gentle man next door, and Harry, sensing Michael is ready to stretch his wings, decides to teach him the oldest lessons in the world. 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. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Mateship With Birds. Mateship with Birds is a novel about young lust and mature love.

Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. 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.īut 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. Mateship With Birds - Kindle edition by Tiffany, Carrie. The quality or state of being a mate esp: fellowship

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