This is the first volume in Janet Frame's autobiography. In language startling for its freshness and clarity, she tells of her childhood as the daughter of an impoverished railway worker and a mother who aspired to write poetry. Amongst superb evocations of New Zealand landscape and the sharp recall of childhood perceptions, we learn of the tragic death by drowning of her sister Myrtle, her brother's epilepsy - and begin to feel the dark undercurrents that were to suck her under in the years before she found herself as a writer.
- ISBN10 0586085858
- ISBN13 9780586085851
- Publish Date 10 May 1993 (first published 1 March 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 December 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Flamingo
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk