CLOUDSTREET – Novel by Tim Winton

His writing often contains messages or themes which act as an ‘eye-opener’ to his audiences. Timothy Winton is an Australian novelist that was born in Karrinyup (Western Australia) but that he moved to the regional city of Albany at age of 12. He wrote his first novel in 1981, launching his writing career, but it wasn’t until “Cloudstreet” was published that his writing career was properly established. He draws his inspiration from his landscapes and places, but has lived in Italy, France, Ireland and Greece (currently lives near Perth, with his wife and three children).

Cloudstreet (an novel that exemplifies the brilliant ability of fiction, to captivate and inspire) https://www.amazon.com/Cloudstreet-Novel-Tim-Winton/dp/0743234413 is a celebration of people, places and rhythms which has fuelled imaginations world-wide. Two rural families flee to the city, and find themselves sharing a great joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives, again from scratch. The Pickle family (who’ve inherited a big house called Cloudstreet in a suburb of Perth), take in the God-fearing Lambs as tenants. Those Lambs, determined to survive, they open up a grocery, sharing experiences of two overpopulated clans inside an haunted house in strange ways. Yes, the Tim Winton’s masterful family saga is both: a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart’s capacity for sorrow and joy.