Towards Another Summer - Softcover

"In this deeply personal novel of exile and loneliness, Janet Frame proves the master of nostalgia, beauty, and loss. Frame is, and will remain, divine." -- Alice Sebold

"Intensely personal, her writing is always spiralling in on itself, towards the condition of myth, and yet it nails the moment, pins down experiences so fleeting that others would never grasp them. What eludes ordinary language, she can capture in the extraordinary argot of her imagination."

Praise for Janet Frame

"In this deeply personal novel of exile and loneliness, Janet Frame proves the master of nostalgia, beauty, and loss. Frame is, and will remain, divine."
--Alice Sebold

"Like every writer worth remembering, Frame exploits--or creates on the page, to be absolutely puristic about it--her peculiar sensibility, her private window into the universal." --"The New York Times Book Review"

"Frame has been compared with Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. I am more often reminded of Jean Rhys, similarly distanced from her homeland in the West Indies, with an artistic viewpoint that may seem skewed by its own sensitivity but is, in fact, courageously clear-sighted." --"Telegraph" (London)

Praise for Janet Frame
"In this deeply personal novel of exile and loneliness, Janet Frame proves the master of nostalgia, beauty, and loss. Frame is, and will remain, divine."
--Alice Sebold
"Like every writer worth remembering, Frame exploits--or creates on the page, to be absolutely puristic about it--her peculiar sensibility, her private window into the universal." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"Frame has been compared with Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. I am more often reminded of Jean Rhys, similarly distanced from her homeland in the West Indies, with an artistic viewpoint that may seem skewed by its own sensitivity but is, in fact, courageously clear-sighted." --"Telegraph" (London)

Praise for Janet Frame

"In this deeply personal novel of exile and loneliness, Janet Frame proves the master of nostalgia, beauty, and loss. Frame is, and will remain, divine."
--Alice Sebold

"Like every writer worth remembering, Frame exploits--or creates on the page, to be absolutely puristic about it--her peculiar sensibility, her private window into the universal." --The New York Times Book Review

"Frame has been compared with Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. I am more often reminded of Jean Rhys, similarly distanced from her homeland in the West Indies, with an artistic viewpoint that may seem skewed by its own sensitivity but is, in fact, courageously clear-sighted." --Telegraph (London)

A posthumously published first novel by the Nobel Prize-nominated author of An Angel at My Table finds self-styled writer and social-anxiety-disorder sufferer Grace Cleave reluctantly accepting an invitation to spend a weekend in northern England, where she remembers her native New Zealand and comes to regard her London existence as transitory.