A review by tessamay156
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

5.0

This book was so brilliant, so so so sooooo good. From the first few pages I was hooked, the two families were so fun and exciting and sad each person a unique character of their own. It was so relatable, I could see bits of my family everywhere. Even the great looming house at number 1 cloudstreet had its own character. There is no shying away from Australian history in this story, the good and the bad. This book is underlined with sadness and unhappiness for the majority of it. The houses history as a place to reform Indigenous Australians. To Quick and his miserable photos, to Rose and her gambling father and drunken mother.
But the ending oh my goodness. The baby and the joy Harry brought to that house.
It was so brilliantly thought out, Tim Winton is fantastic!