The sparkling debut from an exciting new voice in Australian fiction, Claire AmanBird Country is a collection of spare and affecting portraits of ordinary people in rural Australia

Bird Country is a collection of stories that are steeped in the rural Australian landscape and the Australian psyche. The things we don?t say and the relationships we yearn for hover between the lines of these moving and evocative stories, as do the smell and feel of the mud and grass plains, roads and roadhouses, and the pubs and kitchen tables of country life. These are tales of love and loss, of friendship and betrayal, and of happiness and pain. Claire Aman is a strong new voice in Australian fiction.

Claire Aman grew up in Melbourne, but has lived most of her life in rural Australia, in and around Grafton in New South Wales. Her short stories have been published in a number of collections and several have won prizes, including the Wet Ink/CAL Prize and the Hal Porter Prize.