Dimensions
131 x 187 x 28mm
'Bone House' is the tale of two women. One is large, voluptuous and charismatic - a prostitute to whom many, not just men, are drawn. Her strange death in any icy ravine transforms the lives of all around her: an enormous idiot-boy, an embittered midwife, a hunchbacked lord, his decaying mother, and a portrait painter, whose arrival in the village unearths secrets and passions beyond anyone's expectations. The other is young, slight and solitary - a servant whose quest to solve the mystery of the prostitute's death leads her to a terrible discovery, and the beginnings of a future.
Set in 1603, 'Bone House' is a novel about bodies and flesh, fertility, desire and murder, medicine, religion, art and mundanity. Elegant, sensual, fiercely compelling, this is a shockingly assured and modern debut.
