Candy Gourlay's Wild Song

Candy Gourlay introduces Wild Song, her companion novel to Bone Talk, in which Luki and Samkad leave their home in the Philippines for America.

Bone Talk, Candy Gourlay's award-winning historical fiction novel set in the Philippines, is now joined by a companion novel, Wild Song, which revisits the Bone Talk setting and characters, Luki and Samkad. 

While Bone Talk focused on Samkad and the arrival of colonialists in the Philippines, in Wild Song Luki and Samkad travel to America where they find a very different world - and welcome - from what they had been lead to expect at the World's Fair of St Louis, Missouri, in 1904.

Author Candy Gourlay tells us more in this short video.

Read a chapter extract from Wild Song.