He has his eye on Betty Reynolds, the unmarried mother of Michael and Little Hazel, who rents a small house next door. Harry is a middle-aged dairy farmer, divorced and looking for love. Similarly, Tiffany’s new novel, Mateship with Birds, opens in Cohuna, a small town in northern Victoria, in 1953. Everyman’s Rules tells the story of a sewing instructor and a soil scientist who meet aboard the ‘Better Farming Train’ as it passes through the Victorian countryside, and who settle in the impoverished Mallee farmland. It also won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award in 2005 and the Dobbie Literary Award in 2007. Carry Tiffany’s début novel, published by Picador in 2005, was shortlisted for various prizes, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living was always going to be a tough book to follow.
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