==Literary fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Carrie Tiffany
|title=Mateship with Birds
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In the early nineteen fifties a lonely, middle-aged farmer observed the birds on his land and recorded what he saw in the blank pages of his milk ledger. His animals and the birds were his family and his land - difficult though it could be - a part of him. Whilst Harry watched and recorded, his neighbour, Betty, watched Harry and recorded the childhood illnesses and accidents of her two children. By day she worked in a nursing home where she was a lunchtime 'wife', sitting at the bedside of some of the old men in her care. Her daughter, Hazel, kept a nature notebook which was completely factual and accepting of birth and death in a way that can only be achieved by those who live with livestock - and deadstock - on a daily basis.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447219864</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Anouk Markovits