In 2022, the novel was included on the " Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The novel received several awards, including a Miles Franklin Award in 1992, and has been adapted into various forms, including a stage play and a television miniseries. It chronicles the lives of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who come to live together in a large house called Cloudstreet in Perth, Western Australia, over a period of twenty years, 1943 to 1963. (Apr.Cloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton published in 1991. Winton shows himself a worthy successor to his countryman Martin Boyd, who portrayed the Anglo-Australian society of previous generations.
Featuring lyrical passages and rapid-fire, minimally punctuated dialogue, this satiric, affectionate family saga is tragic and hilarious-and often both at once. Following the quirky, deeply etched members of these families-``flamin whackos,'' in Quick Lamb's description-as they forge bonds and undergo travails, Winton explores the haphazard nature of human existence with a quietly focused ferocity. The dilemma is resolved with the sudden arrival of the rigid, God-fearing Lamb family, whom the rather libertine Pickles take in as boarders. Fortunately, the family inherits a rambling old house-the Cloudstreet of the title-in which they can live, although they still lack cash. Sam Pickles earns a modest living mining guano for nitrate until he loses his hand in an accident. ``It moves.'' Considerations of fate and love underlie Winton's ( Shallows ) wry novel, set in Western Australia, about two families thrown together in the years following WW II. ``Luck don't change, love,'' observes Sam Pickles to his daughter Rose.
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