A review by essjay1
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany

3.0

I liked the style of the book, with the long passages from Harry about his family of kookaburras and the atypical story arc. It can be overly detailed about practical farm details (although I grew up in the country so perhaps someone who has no idea how a dairy farm runs might find this useful background information). But this kind of adds to the charm of the book - a book about desire, about ordinary people. Probably 3.5 stars is a fairer rating for me, although I am sure the judges of the Stella prize would disagree!