{"product_id":"owls-do-cry-janet-frame-9780349020914","title":"Owls Do Cry","description":"'Janet Frame was a unique and troubled soul whose luminous words are the more precious' HILARY MANTEL\n'Her dark, eloquent song captured my heart' JANE CAMPION\n'All my preoccupations as a writer - my notions of home, beauty, madness of sorts and longing - come from her' MEG MASON\nThere is nothing in the world the matter with me, except that I have been bathed in a trough and dipped under a waterfall and the pine-needles picked from my scars. . . \nThis is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose days are marred by the velvet cloak of epilepsy; Chicks, the baby of the family; and Daphne, whose rich poetic way of seeing the world leads to a heartbreaking life in institutions.\nA dazzling, fierce cry of darkness and joy, Janet Frame's debut novel is a poetic masterpiece and a timeless classic of New Zealand literature. \nINTRODUCED BY MARGARET DRABBLE \n'The first great New Zealand novel and a modernist masterpiece . . . the book's immense power to unnerve, astonish and impress endures' Guardian","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51145110585632,"sku":"9780349020914","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780349020914_287929.jpg?v=1788648818","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/owls-do-cry-janet-frame-9780349020914","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}