Owls Do Cry
Not since Katherine Mansfield has a writer with the talent of Janet Frame come out of New Zealand. . . . She writes in a lyrical flow of words which often come out with the rare beauty of poetry.  --Detroit NewsOccasionally one comes upon a book that vibrates fundamental nerves.... Such a novel is Owls Do Cry. It is significant not only for its technical nuances but for its conveyance of heartbreak. Poetical, symbolical, very often tangential in her account, as if she were too aware of certain passions to do anything but glance away from them, Miss Frame has fashioned an impressive first novel.  --New LeaderOwls Do Cry glows with the inner light of [Frame's] human awareness - a cool flame that neither cauterizes nor heals but in some mystic ways purifies, substituting an essential beauty for superficial pain and squalor.  --Sunday Herald Tribune