- 280 pages
- English
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In a Fishbone Church
About This Book
When Clifford Stilton dies, his son Gene crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard – but Clifford's words have too much life in them to be ignored, and start to permeate his family's world.
Clifford taught Gene about how to find rocks and fossils, and about how to kill birds and fish. Gene passes on a similar inheritance to his daughters, Bridget and Christina – they have their own ways of digging and discovering the past, keeping an account of life, watching out for the varieties of death that lie hidden. Etta their mother tells a very different story of her 1940s childhood. In a Fishbone Church spans continents and decades. From the Berlin rave scene to the Canterbury duck season, from the rural 1950s to the cosmopolitan present, these five vivid lives cohere in a deeply affecting and exhilarating novel. In a Fishbone Church, Catherine Chidgey's acclaimed debut, won the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, the Adam Award, the regional Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel, and a Betty Trask Award in the UK, where it was also longlisted for the Orange Prize. First published in 1998, it has been a bestseller in New Zealand and has been published around the world.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- The distribution of stones
- A swan story
- An impression of flowers
- It is wiser to be modest
- A severe blow
- A short survival guide
- Emergencies
- Serious historical problems
- An erratic heart
- Stanley Grahamâs ashtray
- The sound of music
- Monsters of the deep
- Sydney is pretty exciting
- Snow comes inside
- Further emergencies
- Native Birds of New Zealand
- The troops require sustenance
- The rainbow catcher
- Back Cover