Carrie Tiffany

Must a girl always be a part? How can she become a whole? In the late 1970s, in the forgotten outer suburbs, a girl has her hands in the engine of a Holden. A sinister new man has joined the family. He works as a mechanic and operates an unlicensed repair shop at the back of their block. The family...

Mateship with Birds is the WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE 2013. Praised as "clever, original and richly rewarding" by the Australian Bookseller & Publisher, and hailed by the Sydney Morning Herald as "it might just be the sweetest book about sex you will ever read". On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains...