It is his relationship with the boy that provides, finally, the book’s turning point. But both are reluctant or embarrassed to indicate this interest.Ĭonstant errands, favours, meals and small gifts keep the family connected with Harry – and he evolves over the years into a surrogate father to the teenage Michael. That there is an attraction between the two adults there is no doubt. Harry’s wife has left him for the president of the local bird-watcher’s club. Set in the 1950s and the regional Victorian town of Cahuna, Mateship With Birds invokes a subliminal level of pastoral and pastel as Carrie Tiffany explores family, sex and love along with the loneliness and monotony of rural life.īetty Reynolds and her two children, Michael and Little Hazel, live on the edge of the dusty town with Harry, a dairy farmer, as their neighbour.
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