The bone people is a love story. It begins when a mute six year old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Kerewin has given up everything but drinking, thinking and fishing, but the arrival of the boy Simon and, later on, of his Maori foster-father Joe, drags all three into the gyre of possibilities, Cruel, funny, ardent and beautiful, The bone people is a powerful and visionary New Zealand fable.

Winner of the 1985 Booker Prize.

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