![]() Helping him about the dairy farm on occasion is Michael, who is coming into adolescence and beginning to wonder about girls. He ‘knows everything about birds’, which given his unresolved desire for Betty, has a nice note of irony to it. Harry comes over to help them about the house and visits for Sunday ‘tea’, but feels awkward and leaves directly after because he’s unsure of what should happen next. ![]() Set in Cohuna, rural Victoria, in the 1950s, the story focuses on the gentle-souled Harry, a dairy farmer with a love of birds (and a relish for sex), and Betty, his lonely and lovelorn neighbour, who has escaped the city with her two children, Little Hazel and Michael. ![]() ![]() Winner of the inaugural Stella Prize in 2013, Carrie Tiffany’s tender and sensual Mateship with Birds is the follow-up to her acclaimed debut Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living. ![]()
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