It's difficult to explain, and nobody has ever believed it when I have tried to explain, but while I have an apparently normal female body, I don't have any sexual urge or appetite. Why, when everyone else was facinated by their developing sexual nature, I couldn't give a damn. 'I spent a considerable amount of time when I was, o, adolescent, wondering why I was different, whether there were other people like me. She touches the lamp and the flaring light stills. I think I put it off a little as I haven’t had a great deal of luck with enjoying many of the Booker Prize winners which I have read to date.

I have wanted to get my hands on a copy of the book for years, but for one reason or another, have not. I know that's irrational, but that's the way I feel.' Keri Hulme’s only novel, The Bone People, was the winner of the 1985 Booker McConnell Prize.

I veer away from it, because it always feels like the other person is draining something out of me. But ever since I can remember, I've disliked close contact.charge contact, emotional contact, as well as any overtly sexual contact. 'I'm the odd one out, the peculiarity in my family, because they are all normal and demonstrative physically. There is nothing in my background to explain the way I am.' She steadies her voice, taking the impatience out of it. I haven't been raped or jilted or abused in any fashion. 'Ah damn it to hell,' she bangs the lamp down on the desk and the flame jumps wildly. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. Below are all possible answers to this clue ordered by its rank. We think the likely answer to this clue is MAORI. 'I thought maybe someone had been bad to you in the past, and that was why you don't like people touching or holding you.' The crossword clue New Zealander in Keri Hulmes 'The Bone People' with 5 letters was last seen on the June 11, 2022. 'I suppose it is a matter of taste.''I wondered, did anyone ever,' shrug, 'you know, hurt you so you don't like kissing? love?'

The Bone People by Keri Hulme