Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's Miles Franklin award-winning masterpiece With an introduction by Philip Hensher Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking & chiacking about for one day one clear clean sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living No 1 Cloudstreet a broken-down house on the wrong side of the tracks a place teeming with memories with shudders & shadows & spirits From separate catastrophes two families
- the Pickles & Lambs
- flee to the city & find themselves thrown together forced to start their lives afresh As they roister & rankle the place that began as a roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts Winner of Australia's prestigious Miles Franklin Award Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama a twenty-year story of life & love full of boisterous energy joy & heartbreak His visceral evocation of the Australian landscape is nowhere more extraordinary than in this classic