Posthumous gem

The Janet Frame Literary Trust has posthumously published a novella written by the great NZ author in 1963. Dismissed by Frame as “embarrassingly personal”, Towards Another Summer is about a homesick NZ writer who is working on a long and difficult novel while living in London. “Imagine writing so often and so well that your personal slush pile includes a novel like this!” writes academic Rachel Buchanan in the Melbourne Age. “Readers who want to match more of Summer‘s fiction with Frame facts, can consult [Michael] King’s encyclopedic biography but such research is not essential to enjoy this book.” Janet Frame died in 2004 aged 79. Read her NZ Edge Heroes biography here.