![]() Betty, a single parent, is attracted to Harry, a gentle and reliable fellow, who is divorced. Their lives are simple, austere, even bleak, while their relations with one another are sensitive and complex, bound together by need and dependency and, in the case of Betty and Harry, desire. Their neighbour, Harry, is a dairy farmer. Set in northern Victoria in the 1950s, Betty Reynolds and her two children rent a property near the small town of Cohuna. Tiffany's book is about birds and families. By using his title, Tiffany, in a sense, dedicates the book to him. In Tiffany's acknowledgements she highly recommends Chisholm's book, published in 1922, that can still be found "in opportunity shops and secondhand bookstores". The title of this raw and tender novel is taken from a book on birds by Alec Chisholm, a distinguished journalist, obsessive bird admirer and self-taught naturalist. ![]()
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