![]() ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, you can’t help thinking that with a bit more editing, and a bit more urgency, it could have been a great one.Īmber Heard pushes a scooter as she takes her daughter Oonagh to a park in Madrid. Tiffany writes so well that Mateship With Birds always remains a good read, particularly for lovers of nature. In practice, the second half of the novel often seems to be treading water - especially as more and more details pile up about dairy farming and the life-cycle of the local kookaburras. In theory, this lack of momentum is entirely appropriate for characters feeling badly stuck. The trouble is that, having put all these elements so beautifully in place, she essentially leaves them there. Although both are treated with obvious sympathy, Tiffany never sentimentalises the toughness of their lives - or of their surroundings. Meanwhile, his neighbour Betty is bringing up her two children as best she can, despite her crippling loneliness. Mateship With Birds is set in the rural Australia of 1953, where dairy farmer Harry goes about his daily tasks as best he can, despite his crippling loneliness. Carrie Tiffany’s first novel, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, was published to huge acclaim in 2006 - and for a while it looks as if her second is going to be more or less perfect. ![]()
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