The Mud House

How Four Friends Built a Place in the Australian Bush

Richard Glover, Richard Glover

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English

ABC Audio
01 February 2016

Memoirs

'One day,' Philip said, 'I'd like to build something bigger ... Like a house. We could just buy a block of land, you know, the four of us, and have a go.'

It was just an idea. Then it started to take shape. In this frank, funny and thought-provoking memoir, Richard Glover describes how he and his friend Philip and their partners built a house in the bush on weekends. It was a huge and exhausting undertaking ... not least because they decided to use mudbricks.

'Imagine this – with mudbrick you have a building that is made out of the very earth it stands on ... there is another thing: the stuff is free. Once we buy the land we'll have no money left. This way we can get started as soon as we have the block.'

In the end it took three years simply to make the bricks. As for the house itself ...

But the process gave Richard the opportunity to examine things he had never quite reconciled to himself – big things like what it means to be a man, the nature of male relationships, fatherhood – and to challenge himself in the kind of blokey environment he had rejected.

Above all, the mud house proved that even if it 'wasn't the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel' there is nothing like the satisfaction of making something with your own hands.

By: Richard Glover
Read by: Richard Glover
Imprint: ABC Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 122mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 68g
ISBN: 9781489095404
ISBN 10: 1489095403
Publication Date: 01 February 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Glover is the author of a number of bestselling books, including The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and The Mud House, also available as audiobooks. He writes regularly for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Washington Post and presents the comedy show Thank God It’s Friday on ABC Local Radio. Richard Glover has written a number of bestselling books, including The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and The Mud House. He writes regularly for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Washington Post, as well as a presenting the comedy program Thank God It’s Friday on ABC Local Radio.