num_pages: 210
description: Set in provincial, pre-1940s New Zealand, Owls Do Cry explores the Withers family, in particular Daphne Withers. When one of Daphne's sisters dies, a crisis is provoked that leads Daphne to a mental asylum where she receives shock treatment. Her voice from "the Dead Room" haunts the novel with its poetic insights.
language: English
title: Owls Do Cry
titlecomplete: Owls Do Cry
genres: Fiction, Mental Health, Womens, Literature, Classics, Novels, Mental Illness, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1713
places: New Zealand
publisher: George Braziller