Owls Do Cry 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 imagination condemns her to
a life in institutions. 'Janet Frame's first full-length work of
fiction, Owls Do Cry, is an exhilarating and dazzling prelude to
her long and successful career. She was to write in several modes,
publishing poems, short stories, fables and volumes of
autobiography, as well as other novels of varied degrees of formal
complexity, but Owls Do Cry remains unique in her oeuvre. It has
the freshness and fierceness of a mingled cry of joy and pain. Its
evocation of childhood recalls Blake's Songs of Innocence and of
Experience, as well as the otherworldly Shakespearean lyric of her
title and epigraph, but her handling of her dark material is wholly
original' Margaret Drabble
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