Synopsis
This first novel tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. Janet Frame is the author of The Carpathians, which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989.
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Review
'The most considerable New Zealand novelist yet' Patrick White 'A kind of personal archaeology, painstaking and intensely felt' Times Literary Supplement
Book Description
Owls Do Cry is the first novel of one of New Zealand's most acclaimed classic writers, Janet Frame. Hailed as a masterpiece on first publication in 1957, it is comparable to Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
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