Book of the Month for December is The Bone People by Keri Hulme. It’s almost as old as me having won the Booker Prize in 1985. Set in New Zealand at 540 pages it will certainly keep you busy over the dark nights. Read along with me and have a go at answering the Book Club questions at the end of the month. In the meantime here is a snippet of what you are letting yourself in for:
The Bone People – the blurb
Kerewin’s cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper.
The narrative unravels to reveal the truths that lie behind these three characters, and in so doing displays itself as a huge, ambitious work that tackles the clash between Maori and European characters in beautiful prose of a heartrending poignancy.
Join Us…
I will be sharing my Big Review of The Bone People on the last Friday of the month. A series of Book Club questions will also be around for you to answer on the last Thursday. Don’t wait until then though, I would love to know your marks out of ten as soon as you have read it. So grab your copy and read along with me.
