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. The Bone People: A Novel Keri Hulme LSU Press, Fiction - 464 pages 60 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. The Bone People: A Novel Paperback Octoby Keri Hulme (Author) 411 ratings Hardcover 7.90 8 Used from 7.90 3 New from 26.88 4 Collectible from 25.00 Paperback 15.99 150 Used from 1.35 32 New from 11.10 1 Collectible from 40. I know that's irrational, but that's the way I feel.' 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. The Bone People by Keri Hulme, 1986, Penguin (Non-Classics) edition, in English. '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. Keri Hulmes Booker Prize-winning novel focusses on the mysterious relationships between three unorthodox outsiders of mixed Maori and European heritage. 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. '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.'

'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?'