Cloudstreet Summary
Tim Winton

Cloudstreet Summary

Tim Winton's Cloudstreet is set principally in a large, rundown house at Number One Cloud Street in Perth, Western Australia. In 1944, the Pickles family of Geraldton, on the coast north of Perth, inherit the house and move there. Shortly afterward, the impoverished family subdivides the backyard and rents out half of the house to the Lamb family, who have arrived from the coastal town of Margaret River, south of Perth. Both...

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