# Eucalyptus

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- Book: [Eucalyptus](https://www.bookquiver.com/murray-bail/eucalyptus) ([Eucalyptus.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/murray-bail/eucalyptus.md))
- Authors: [Murray Bail](https://www.bookquiver.com/murray-bail)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-690-6
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2021-07-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'A masterpiece. A novel of high seriousness and higher playfulness' Michael Hulse, Spectator On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the first man who can name all the eucalypts, down to the last tree. As suitors clamber to meet Holland's challenge, Ellen encounters a strange young man among her father's trees - a storyteller, with enchanting tales of faraway lands. 'Murray Bail is the warmest and quick-witted of storytellers. You will never forget what is at the heart of this book: one of the great and most surprising courtships in literature' Michael Ondaatje