![]() ![]() ![]() Clara del Valle is shocked into muteness upon the death of her sister Rosa the Beautiful. Muteness also features in The House of Spirits the first book by Isabelle Allende, her sprawling magic realist story of four generations of the Trueba family. ![]() This experimental and ambitious book focuses on the relationship between three characters: Kerewin, an artist and hermit, a mute boy called Simon and his Maori foster father Joe. The book has been greeted with fantastic critical and commercial success and won the Booker Prize in 2020.Īnother debut novel featuring a young boy which won the Booker Prize is The Bone People by New Zealand author Kerri Hulme. Shuggie Bain tells the story of the love that a young boy has for his addicted and desperate mother as he grows up in poverty in Glasgow. ![]() All the books in my chain this month are also debut novels! This month we are starting with Shuggie Bain the debut novel by Douglas Stuart. Six Degrees of Separation is the brain child of Kate over at Books Are My Favourite and Best where we all start with the same book and see where our links take us!įollow the hashtag #6degrees on Twitter to check out everyone else’s chains! ![]()
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