After a long holiday at a seaside camp they are as close to a family as any of them have ever experienced. Slowly, tentatively, she accepts their attentions. Slowly, tentatively, Joe and Simon reach out to Kerewin. These three very lonely people come together when Simon breaks into Kerewin's house. Simon's specific identity is unknown, he cannot speak, and he has suffered severe emotional trauma. Simon, Joe's foster son, lost his parents in a boating accident. Joe is a widowed laborer with a violent temper. Kerewin is an artist and recluse, unmarried and estranged from her family. Keri Hulme's Booker prize-winning novel is about the healing power of relationships and family bonds. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart." (p. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. "A family can be the bane of one's existence.
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