Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
Buy on AmazonCloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton published in 1991. It chronicles the lives of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who come to live together in a large house called Cloudstreet in Perth, Western Australia, over a period of twenty years, 1943 to 1963. The novel received several awards, including a Miles Franklin Award in 1992, and has been adapted into various forms, including a stage play and a television miniseries.
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"Tim Winton is a novelist from Western Australia, which is why you've never heard of him, and he is, hands down, my favorite writer of all time. This novel, plus "Cloudstreet" and "Dirt Music," are works of extreme genius."
By the Book: Elin Hilderbrand · nytimes.com