Perfect introduction

“If you’ve yet to become acquainted with Janet Frame, one of New Zealand’s finest literary exports, then you are in for a treat,” Eden Carter Wood writes in a review of The Daylight and the Dust for UK publication Pink Paper. “This collection of her short fiction spans four decades of her writing career, and is wonderfully diverse including stories like Swans, where a family leave their ill cat, Gypsy, to take a beautifully evoked trip to the beach, The Chosen Image, where a poet orders a package of seeds in order to grow himself a Muse, and the wonderful The Teacup, in which single forty-something Edith tries desperately to bind herself to her colleague, Bill. It’s the perfect introduction to Frame’s work, and well worth seeking out.” Janet Frame was born in Dunedin. She died in 24, aged 79.