 First edition | |
| Author | Carrie Tiffany |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Literary |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan, Australia |
Publication date | 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 256 pp |
| ISBN | 0330421913 |
| Followed by | Mateship with Birds |
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living is a 2005 novel by Australian author Carrie Tiffany. It won the 2005 Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Miles Franklin Award and the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction.
The novel follows Jean Finnegan, a sensible and appealing young seamstress who, when the story opens in 1934, has earned a billet in the women's car at the rear of the Better Farming Train that tours Victoria, bringing agricultural science to the man-on-the-land. The rest of the train consists of 14 cars, each dedicated to some aspect of farm labour - a pig car, a cattle car, a sheep car, a wheat car, even a chicken-sexing car run by world-famous Japanese chicken-sexer Mr Ohno, whose admiration manages to unsettle Jean despite his almost non-existent English. [1]
The novel carried the following dedication:
"For T. P. S., T. E. S. & G. R. T. and with heartfelt thanks to K. J. S."
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