In the canon
The Bone People
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1984
- Pages
- Pages 450
The child comes in through a window, out of a storm, into a tower a woman built so that nobody would ever come in. Kerewin Holmes is a painter who can no longer paint, living alone on the South Island coast with her books and her whisky, and the intruder is Simon, a mute boy who washed ashore from a shipwreck with a past nobody can name.
A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence.
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