Mateship with Birds

Mateship with Birds is a 2012 novel[1] by Australian novelist Carrie Tiffany which won the inaugural 2013 Stella Prize.

The novel is set in the 1950s in Cohuna, a town in northern Victoria.

Betty, a nurse, lives on the outskrts of town, next-door to dairy farmer Harry, whose wife has left him for a man from the local bird fanciers' club.

Writing in The Guardian Janine Burke called the book a "raw and tender novel" and went on point out the connections between this novel and the book of the same title by Alec Chisholm.

[2] Romana Kaval in The Monthly found "the book full of wisdom and humour.