In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey

In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey

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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ISBN 13	9780864733351
ISBN 10	0864733356
Title	In a Fishbone Church
Author	Catherine Chidgey
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Te Herenga Waka University Press
Year published	2011-01-04
Number of pages	271
Prizes	Winner of Betty Trask Awards 1999, Winner of New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards: Hubert Church Award for Fiction 1998, Short-listed for Montana New Zealand Book of the Year Award Fiction Category 1998
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