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In a Fishbone Church
A Literary Fiction Novel by Catherine Chidgey
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Multi-Generational,
- Historical Fiction
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- Family sagas where diaries and memories shape generations
- Stories shifting between Berlin rave culture and rural New Zealand
- Characters obsessed with fossils, hunting, and hidden histories
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.
First published in 1998, it has been a bestseller in New Zealand and has been published around the world.
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