![]() ![]() Owls Do Cry is Janet Frame's first novel. ![]() A fiftieth anniversary edition was published in 2007. It is one of the classics of New Zealand literature and has remained in print continuously for fifty years. 'Owls Do Cry remains innovative and relevant' GUARDIAN 'Janet Frame was a unique and troubled soul whose luminous words are the more precious' HILARY MANTEL 'Her dark, eloquent song captured my heart ' JANE CAMPION 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 are marred by the velvet cloak of epilepsy Chicks, the baby of the family and Daphne, whose rich, poetic imagination condemns her to a life in institutions. ![]()
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