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'Bird Country is a collection of stories that are steeped in the rural Australian landscape and the Australian psyche. The things we don't say and the relationships we yearn for hover between the lines of these moving and evocative stories, as do the smell and feel of the mud and grass plains, roads and roadhouses, and the pubs and kitchen tables of country life. These are tales of love and loss, of friendship and betrayal, and of happiness and pain. Claire Aman is a strong new voice in Australian fiction.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: In memory of my beloved friend Gillian, whose idea it was to try a gallop - this is it.
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Home Fires and Flights of Fancy
2017
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 September 2017; (p. 22)'According to folklore, black cockatoos are harbingers of rain. In Harriet McKnight’s debut novel, Rain Birds, the clouds do eventually break open, in the wake of an unseasonably hot spell that exacerbated inflammatory situations in a regional Victorian town.' (Introduction)
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Home Fires and Flights of Fancy
2017
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 September 2017; (p. 22)'According to folklore, black cockatoos are harbingers of rain. In Harriet McKnight’s debut novel, Rain Birds, the clouds do eventually break open, in the wake of an unseasonably hot spell that exacerbated inflammatory situations in a regional Victorian town.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2018 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Australian Short Story Collection - Steele Rudd Award
- 2018 shortlisted Colin Roderick Award
