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Violence
Some
Some violence including accidents, a near-drowning, and the world of manual labor; period-appropriate
Language
Some
Some profanity in the Australian working-class register
Sexual Content
Some
Some sexual content in the adult literary fiction register
Substance Use
Some
Significant drinking in the Australian working-class milieu
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate psychological complexity: grief, faith, and the strangeness of ordinary Australian life create rich emotional texture
What this book is about
The Lambs and the Pickles, two working-class Western Australian families thrown together by chance, share the large house at 1 Cloud Street in Perth from 1943 to 1963. Tim Winton's beloved novel is expansive, earthy, and deeply Australian — tracing births, deaths, accidents, and transformations across two decades with a voice that is simultaneously comic, spiritual, and profound. One of the great novels of Australian literature.
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