The Bone People

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Hodder & Stoughton, 2001 - Fiction - 546 pages
Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.

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About the author (2001)

Keri Hulme has Kai Tahu, Orkney Island and English ancestry and lives at Okarito on the West Coast of New Zealand. She is writer and painter and has published short stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, and also a book of poetry.

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