If you think your family is weird, you're probably right, but they don't get any weirder than Pickles and the Lambs. Welcome to the literary festival. The novel I will review today is Cloudstreet. Cloudstreet is a novel written by the ever so popular Tim Winton. Cloudstreet captures the painful, bitter and sweet fortunes of two Australian families, the Lambs and the Pickles, who live in the same house in Cloudstreet from 1944 to 1964. A quick glance at this novel and you'll realize it's quite long, the pages fly by , so don't be intimidated by the size! Because Cloudstreet is such a long story, it offers a variety of themes. It has everything from the meaning of place and home to family issues and forgiveness. Even though this novel is set between the 1940s and 1960s, the issues and themes covered in this book still have relevance to today's society. The most dominant issues today are identity and faith. The house itself in Cloudstreet has an identity. There are several mentions of how the characters see the house as a person and how...