Weathered Bones
The storm snaps the mast of a boat and the sound of old wood hitting bone wakes Antoinette. Across the harbour Grace sets down her cup of tea and watches it shudder as the wind shakes the house. And a hundred and fifty years ago the same storm slams into the boat which carries Eliza to New Zealand. This is no ordinary storm.
Weathered Bones tells the story of Antoinette – a widowed grandmother, Grace – an emotional young wife, and Eliza – the lighthouse keeper from another century, in a book of dark water, flowers and midnight paintings.
Inspired by the real-life character of New Zealand’s only female permanent lighthouse keeper at Pencarrow – which celebrates its 150th anniversay this year – Eliza becomes a presence in Grace and Antoinette’s lives, demanding an audience, a voice and perhaps even a life of her own in the present day . . .
‘This is spine-shivering territory, the haunted past reaching out to touch the
present, and turn it on its head. A book full of “real” women from an exciting
new writer.’ Dame Fiona Kidman
'This is a very fine first novel – containing traces of Fiona Kidman and Maurice Gee – by a young new writer
who is already attracting attention for the effortless and skilful way she blends past and present.'
Available in all good books stores $28. Paperback.
Available in all good bookstores and online through most distribution sites (However not on Amazon) Try fishpond, The Nile etc.
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Michele PowlesMichele Powles is a dancer, writer and all round arty type. She has worked as a performer all over the world but is now back in New Zealand working in literature and performance. Touch Compass, her first non fiction book was published by David Ling in 2007 and Penguin will publish Weathered Bones, her first novel, available April 2009. Michele has written for a range of magazines, radio and children's publications and writes copy and scripts for a range of theatre and dance works.
