![]() ![]() ![]() Kerewin is deliberately alone, taciturn and snarky. He brings his father, Joe, into the picture: a man who would have been a preacher but works in a factory. One day, the boy Simon – exact age unknown – breaks into her tower, beginning a delicate and complex friendship. ![]() There is Kerewin Holmes, wealthy hermit-artist, fallen out with her family, who lives in a bizarre tower she’s built by the sea. Itis set on the South Island of New Zealand and follows three characters, each troubled and troubling in their own very particular ways. The Bone People was her first novel, and she struggled to find a publisher for it, but it was eventually picked up by the small publishing house Spiral, run by a collective of women – and the book went on to win the Booker Prize in 1985. Keri Hulme has Kai Tahu, Orkney Island and English ancestry. Scholar of literary & cultural studies, editor of poco.lit. ![]()
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