In a novel partly titled for this substance, a woman says “ten fifteen” during a seizure, which her husband correctly interprets as meaning that their missing daughter is in hotel room 1015. In another novel partly titled for this substance, a dying old man, who believes he is haunted by his dead grandmother for refusing to eat her corpse, charges another man with guarding a canoe containing a sacred stone. In a novel partly titled for this substance, Immaculée Constantin is part of a group of murderous psychics called the Anchorites who try to recruit Holly Sykes. That David Mitchell novel is titled for clocks of this substance. In a novel partly titled for this substance, the mute child Simon is adopted by part-Māori painter Kerewin Holmes. For 10 points, what substance precedes the word “people” in the title of a novel by Keri Hulme? ■END■
ANSWER: bone [accept The Bone Clocks; accept The Bone People]
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