No Bones

No Bones is a book about feelings, family, sex, and Ireland--but don't tell Amelia that. She's the one growing up in the mad family, in the mad society, who doesn't want to know what's going on. But things are going on: eight-year-olds collecting very peculiar treasure; babies who might be, or might not be, bombs; schoolgirls bringing guns into schoolyards; and, of course, lots of food and bad, bad sex.

If Amelia is to live she needs to change. Can she, though, in a place where people don't know how to look after themselves, and so wouldn't know how to look after one another?

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/17/2002
ISBN: 9780393323030
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2002 pg. 437
Publishers Weekly 04/01/2002 pg. 50
Booklist 04/15/2002 pg. 1379
Library Journal 04/15/2002 pg. 123
Women's Review of Books 10/01/2002 pg. 10
Kliatt 01/01/2003 pg. 13