Janet Frame

Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose days…

'A deeply rewarding and beautiful novel' HILARY MANTEL 'The idea of a new novel by Janet Frame is in itself a delight and Towards Another…

'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life . . .…

I'm a short story addict, both reading and writing them, and I always keep hoping for the perfect story.' (Janet Frame to Tim Curnow, January…

All I had experienced, all the stories I had read or dreamed came to me the moment I, a stranger, turned the key in the…