Cloudstreet ([New] edition)

As dramatized on BBC Radio 4Winner of the Miles Franklin Award'Magnificent' - The New York TimesCloudstreet 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