
Mateship n. the quality or state of being a mate; esp: fellowship On the outskirts of a country town in the early 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a raucous family of kookaburras roosting next to his dairy. As Harry observes the birds through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance & song, his neighbour, Betty, has her own set of binoculars trained on him. Betty's son, Michael, gravitates to the gentle man next door, & Harry, sensing Michael is ready to stretch his wings, decides to teach him about sex. Harry knows everything about the l&. But what does he know about women? Mateship with Birds is a tender, witty novel of young lust & mature love. A glorious tale of innocence lost, it celebrates life on one small farm in a vast ancient landscape, as a collection of misfits question what a family might be.