Cloudstreet
English
By (author): Tim Winton
As dramatized on BBC Radio 4
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award
'Magnificent' - The New York Times
Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama, a twenty-year story of life and love, full of boisterous energy, joy and heartbreak. His visceral evocation of the Australian landscape is nowhere more extraordinary than in this classic.
No. 1 Cloudstreet: a broken-down house on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories, with shudders and shadows and spirits. From separate catastrophes, two families the Pickles and Lambs flee to the city and find themselves thrown together, forced to start their lives afresh. As they roister and rankle, the place that began as a roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts.
With an introduction by Philip Hensher