So in terms of inspiration, were there any specific incidents in your own life that sparked the ideas for your novels? The course you’re running for the Faber Academy is called Fiction Mining: where to find the inspiration to start writing. In the lead-up to her October 29 course at Allen & Unwin’s Faber Academy – Carrie caught up with LOTL to chat about the inspiration for her work and navigating the publishing world. Her second novel, 2012’s Mateship with Birds, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Award and won the inaugural 2013 Stella Prize. The awards for her first book, 2005’s Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living include the 2003 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, 2005 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award and the 2007 Dobbie Encouragement Award. 4,326 Carrie Tiffany Former park ranger turned agricultural journalist, Carrie Tiffany is also a hugely successful novelist. Shot through with humour and a quiet wisdom, this haunting first novel vividly captures the hope and the disappointment of the era when it was possible to believe in the perfectibility of both nature and humankind. In an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism, they marry and settle in the impoverished Mallee with the ambition of proving that a scientific approach to cultivation can transform the land.īut after seasons of failing crops, and with a new World War looming, Robert and Jean are forced to confront each other, the community they have inadvertently destroyed, and the impact of their actions on an ancient and fragile landscape. In the swaying cars an unlikely love affair occurs between Robert Pettergree, a man with an unusual taste for soil, and Jean Finnegan, a talented young seamstress with a hunger for knowledge. The train is on a crusade to persuade the country that science is the key to successful farming, and that productivity is patriotic. Amid billowing clouds of dust and information, the government ‘Better Farming Train’ slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land. It is 1934, the Great War is long over and the next is yet to come.
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