The over-riding question is this: when will the two of them get their acts together and transform their friendship into something rather more, well - how shall we say this - sexual? It’s a character-driven novel about two lonely people - Harry, a dairy farmer whose wife ran off with another man, and Betty, a single mother raising two children, Michael and Little Hazel - who live next door to each other. Mateship with Birds is set in rural Australia in the 1950s. I chose to read it on the strength of her debut novel, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, which was published in 2005. Review copy courtesy of the publisher.Ĭarrie Tiffany’s second novel, Mateship with Birds, has been nominated for numerous prizes, including the Stella Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Fiction – hardcover Picador 224 pages 2012.
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