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. But how much does he really know Betty? Mateship with Birds is a tender, witty novel of young lust and mature love. 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. But 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 is a novel about young lust and mature love.
the quality or state of being a mate esp: fellowship 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.
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