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Issue Details: First known date: 1965... 1965 A Bird in the Hand
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A 'satire of modern Australian life, with settings ranging from Sydney to the Gold Coast of Queensland'. The story focuses on the comic 'efforts of the protagonist, Clem Bird, to escape the bonds of respectability, a job, matrimony and the social ambitions of his North Shore mother'.

(Sources: Murphy Women Writers and Australia, 1988; The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 1994.)

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Works about this Work

Birds and Bushwackers Derek Whitelock , 1964 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1964-1965) vol. 4 no. 2-3 1964; (p. 38)

— Review of A Bird in the Hand Lesley Rowlands , 1965 single work novel ; The Yarns of Billy Borker Frank Hardy , 1965 selected work short story ; The Wayward Gang Wal Watkins , 1965 single work novel
Birds and Bushwackers Derek Whitelock , 1964 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1964-1965) vol. 4 no. 2-3 1964; (p. 38)

— Review of A Bird in the Hand Lesley Rowlands , 1965 single work novel ; The Yarns of Billy Borker Frank Hardy , 1965 selected work short story ; The Wayward Gang Wal Watkins , 1965 single work novel
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