Cloudstreet

Award-winning work Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is a classic family saga told from several points of view, including but not limited to that of the Pickle family, which owned a large, three-story house on Cloud Street. Filled with the stresses and strains of working-class Australian life in the early sixties and post-World War II era, the story follows the Lambs as they struggle to recover from their own tragedies, who take over a grocery store on Board Street. The Pickle family moves into the upper levels of his home and quickly becomes embroiled in the lives of their tenants through thick and thin -- adultery, drunkenness, death -- even as they each forge their own way through life.