- Winner, Miles Franklin Award 1999
- Winner, Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1999
There was once a man on a property outside a one-horse town, in New South Wales, who couldn't come to a decision about his daughter. He then made an unexpected decision. Incredible! For a while people talked and dreamed about little else…
Praise for Eucalyptus:
'A magical new novel—it leaves you hungering for more.'
— New York Times Book Review
'A wonderful story brilliantly told—There is not a false note. A complex remembrance of individual eucalypts becomes part of the emotional fabric of a moving, exhilarating love story.'
— Australian
'A masterpiece.'
— Spectator
'You will never forget what is at the heart of this book one of the great and most surprising courtships in literature.'
— Michael Ondaatje
'Buy this book. You won't have read anything like it.'
— Evening Standard
'An astonishing achievement.'
— Independent Magazine
