The Edge of the Alphabet: Janet Frame - Softcover

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Janet Frame (1924–2004) was a celebrated New Zealand author of novels, short stories, poetry and the three-volume autobiography An Angel at My Table that was adapted for cinema by Jane Campion. Janet Frame won numerous local and international literary prizes including the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book. She was an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and held two honorary doctorates. She was awarded a CBE in 1983 and in 1990 she was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the country’s highest civil honour. Her work is in print around the world and has been translated into many languages.

Catherine Lacey is the author of five books, most recently the novels Biography of X and Pew. Her honours include the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the Young Lions Fiction Award, and a fellowship from The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Her first work of non fiction, The Möbius Book, is forthcoming in 2025.

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Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many friends but treats people with carelessness. Alike in their alienation, all three embark on a new life in London, piecing together an existence in the margins of the urban world.

The Edge of the Alphabet, the third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand's foremost writer