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Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living
Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
“Living off the land must be scientifically based. If you don’t do it properly, you fail. In the old days you’d starve.” In the 1930s, a train carrying experts travelled across the Australian countryside dispensing knowledge in the confident expectation that crop yields could be increased. While doing research for an agricultural magazine Carrie Tiffany saw photographs of the better farming train, including the women’s car with the infant health nurses and scientific standards about raising babies. This is the setting for her novel.
"Touches of gentle comedy are outweighed by sadness and irony in a novel full of understated tragedy." Sunday Telegraph.
A first novel, short-listed for the 2006 Orange prize for Fiction
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