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. He works as a mechanic and operates an unlicensed repair shop at the back of their block. A sinister new man has joined the family. But when Harry decides to teach Michael about the opposite sex, perilous boundaries are crossed. Mass Market Paperback 17.70 3 New from 17.70 Must a girl always be a part How can she become a whole In the late 1970s, in the forgotten outer suburbs, a girl has her hands in the engine of a Holden. Betty is pleased that her son, Michael, wants to spend time with the gentle farmer next door. Ardent, hard-working Betty has escaped to the country with her two fatherless children.
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. "it might just be the sweetest book about sex you will ever read" Sydney Morning Herald "clever, original and richly rewarding" Australian Bookseller & Publisher
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