Book of the Week: The Fish by Lloyd Jones

In this fable-like novel from the author of (most famously) Mister Pip and (most recently) The Cage, the narrator's sister gives birth to a very different sort of child, who reveals the family's capacities for both love and shame, set against small-town small-minded New Zealand in the 1960s. Just what is Fish's relationship with the sea beside which he was born, and what bearing might this have on the Wahine disaster? And what is the relationship between the narrator writing this account and the events that are contained within it? 
>>Read Stella's review.

>>Strange and slippery. 

>>“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”

>>Variegation.

>>Strange fish. 

>>The Wahine disaster. 
>>Read Thomas's reviews of The Cage and High Wire. 
>>....and then there were none. 

>>Your copy of The Fish.