Owls do cry
Subtitle: a novel.
Publisher: G. Braziller
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Description: Set in provincial, pre-1940 New Zealand, this novel explores the Withers family and in particular Daphne. When one of Daphne's sisters, Francie, dies at the rubbish dump where the children search for treasure, a crisis is provoked which leads Daphne to a mental asylum where she is given shock treatment. Her voice from 'the Dead Room' haunts the novel with its poetic insights.