Cloudstreet

This is that rare book, a novel of both heart and intellect. It pulses with a sense of wonder and shines with the clear light of truth.

Robert Drewe

One of the great masterpieces of world fiction.

Philip Hensher

If you have not read Cloudstreet, your life is diminished ... If you have not met these characters, this generous community, these tragedies, the humour. It is so wonderful.

Mem Fox

A groundbreaking Australian narrative [with an] irresistible combination of the domestic and the mythic.

Thomas Keneally

Cloudstreet is a comic, poignant and intelligent tour de force.

Jim Crace

Reading Cloudstreet for the first time was like a summer dream from which I wished never to wake.

Gillian Mears

Cloudstreet is the sole epic of contemporary Australian literature: in it, Winton paints on the same canvas as Xavier Herbert and Patrick White.

Geordie Williamson

A writer of tremendous zest, warmth and humour.

Graham Swift

Reading Cloudstreet is like catching a wave.

Kate Jennings

Eccentric heights and unrepeatable genius.

Malcolm Knox

Masterly... Ultimately a love letter to Australia, Cloudstreet is a compulsory and compulsive read. Read it and weep.

Herald Sun

Within Winton's writings, Cloudstreet may be considered a peak, where his lyrical language, vivid sense of place and dream-like scenarios coalesce into a stunning whole.

Weekend Australian

[Tim Winton] is a genius. His way with words and the way he writes is so raw and realistic and captures Australiana like no one else does. l am in awe of his talent.

Emma Booth

It has the surge, the sweep and momentum of a great American novel, but it's flagrantly Australian.

Brenda Walker, Weekend Australian

The first book that made me want to write ... It made life seem amazing and sprawling.

Evie Wyld