Prior to that, their mother Penny died a slow and painful death from an aggressive cancer. The five Dunbar boys- Matthew, Rory, Henry, Clay and Tommy- have been living alone in their house since their father, Michael, abandoned them. In as much as it can be summarised, the book is about Clay Dunbar, the enigmatic fourth Dunbar boy, and the events that happen to him after he agrees to help his estranged father build a bridge.
One thing is for sure: if readers were expecting more of the same from the author of The Book Thief, they’re likely to have been in for a surprise. Perhaps, this has only strengthened my belief that the entire novel is really some sort of extended metaphor, although for what exactly I couldn’t say.
The entire time that I was reading Markus Zusak’s new novel, Bridge of Clay, I had Josh Pyke’s song “Feet of Clay” going around and around in my head.
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