Penguin Books Australia

The 21st anniversary special edition

Signed and individually numbered

One of only 250 copies produced

Australians everywhere remember the first time they met the Lamb and Pickles families, struggling and striving, laughing and cursing, coming apart and pulling together under one roof at Cloudstreet.

This signed, limited anniversary edition celebrates a significant milestone in the life of Australian...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - Winner of  the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his partner - better than the parents - what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him.

Night falls, in a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jacob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbs's house, a small dog is torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same again.

What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frighteningly understanding parent, your brother wets the bed and the teachers take an instant dislike...