Evaristo lists her influences as including The Bone People by Keri Hulme
, Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
, The Famished Road by Ben Okri
, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
,...
By October 1985: Keri Hulme's novel The Bone People was published...
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By October 1985
Keri Hulme
's novel The Bone People was published in England. It won the Booker Prize over the objections of Nina Bawden
, who hated its depiction of violence to a child.