TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hulme,Keri
TI  - The bone people
SN  - 9780330485418
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - Picador
KW  - Māori (New Zealand people)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Commitment (Psychology)
KW  - Racially mixed people
KW  - Social isolation
KW  - Women painters
KW  - Mute persons
KW  - Shipwrecks
KW  - Widowers
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - lcsh
N2  - In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor-a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality
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