The Bones - Watson, Katrina
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Shelley Conway is a medical student with a keen social conscience. However, in 1970s Australia, her medical school has no social conscience at all. The coursework is inhumane, and students have to toughen up and shut up. Shelley is shocked to realise that not only is it compulsory for every student to purchase a box of human bones, but that nobody ever asks where the bones come from. When Shelley finds a coded message in her box of bones, she is galvanised into action. She defies the Dean's threat to expel her from the course and goes to India to determine the origin of the bones. What she…mehr

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Shelley Conway is a medical student with a keen social conscience. However, in 1970s Australia, her medical school has no social conscience at all. The coursework is inhumane, and students have to toughen up and shut up. Shelley is shocked to realise that not only is it compulsory for every student to purchase a box of human bones, but that nobody ever asks where the bones come from. When Shelley finds a coded message in her box of bones, she is galvanised into action. She defies the Dean's threat to expel her from the course and goes to India to determine the origin of the bones. What she discovers is much, much worse than she'd ever imagined. The Bones is a gripping political mystery, wrapped up in questions of justice, trauma and humanity.
Autorenporträt
Katrina is a retired doctor and a writer.She was at university in the '70s and was a regular at all the demos.Katrina became a gastroenterologist, with a little flame of social activism that wouldn't go out. She worked with marginalised groups in society, including those with Hepatitis C, and went to the Pacific Islands for a year as a volunteer doctor.Her life changed in her early forties when she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. At that time, she was the breadwinner for a family of four children. They had to give up expensive bread, and she had to change her type of medical work.Around that time Katrina realised she had a few stories she wanted to tell, starting with The Bones, which is her first novel.Katrina was proud to receive the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2018 for services to medicine.