1999 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
On a property in western New South Wales a man named Holland
lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a
beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on
his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision:
she will marry the man who can name all his species of eucalyptus,
down to the last tree... Eucalyptus is a modern fairy tale
and an unpredictable love story. Haunting and mesmeric, it
illuminates the nature of story-telling itself.
"Wonderful... brilliantly told... a moving, exhilarating love
story." Australian
