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Local DescriptionHulme does an outstanding job of exploring the intricacies of domestic abuse. This novel is really an extended character study of three highly complex individuals, and Hulme’s prose style is lyrical and unusual. I’m glad I’ve read this, but it was a long and harrowing read. - Holly DescriptionThe Bone People is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Promotion infoPowerful and visionary, Keri Hulme has written the great New Zealand novel of our times. AwardsWinner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1985. Reviews'In this novel, New Zealand's people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and perceptiveness' Sunday Times Author descriptionKeri Hulme has Kai Tahu, Orkney Island and English ancestry and lives on the West Coast of New Zealand. She is a writer and painter and has published short stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, and also a book of poetry. |