| Mateship with Birds | |
| Author: | Carrie Tiffany |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Picador, Australia |
| Media Type: | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages: | 211 |
| Isbn: | 9781742610764 |
| Oclc: | 756699969 |
| Preceded By: | Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living |
| Pub Date: | 21 June 2012 |
| Congress: | PR9619.4.T545 M38 2012 |
| Isbn Note: | (1st ed. AUS paperback) |
| Set In: | Rural Australia, 1950s |
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."[3]
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | — | [4] | |||
| Christina Stead Prize for Fiction | [5] | ||||
| — | [6] | ||||
| — | [7] | ||||
| 2014 | — |