description: 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.
language: English
title: Owls Do Cry
titlecomplete: Owls Do Cry
genres: Classics, Mental Health, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mental Illness, Womens
ratings_count: 1713
places: New Zealand
publisher: Bloomsbury