Owls Do Cry

''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
''All my preoccupations as a writer - my notions of home, beauty, madness of sorts and longing - come from her'' MEG MASON

There is nothing in the world the matter with me, except that I have been bathed in a trough and dipped under a water...