Faces In The Water And The Edge Of The Alphabet by Janet Frame Publisher:Random House 503 pg. ISBN: 9781869417383 In Faces In The Water, Janet Frame responded to her doctor's suggestion that 'as I was obviously suffering from the effects of my long stay in hospital in New Zealand, I should write my story of that time to give me a clearer view of my future'. The 'documentary' evolved into an intensely imagined fictionalised account in which Istina Mavet moves in & out of mental hospitals, facing the terrors of electric-shock treatment and the threat of a leucotomy. The Edge Of The Alphabet is a sequel to Owls Do Cry. Within it, Thora Pattern creates her own fiction about epileptic Toby Withers as he boards a liner for London, encountering Zoe Bryce & Irishman Pat Keenan. Both Thora (the writer) & Zoe (the lone traveller) echo aspects of Frame herself, though because of a misconstrued identification of Toby as her real-life brother, she refused to allow any further reprints. As a result of this is the first reissue of that novel since first publication in '62. A State of Siege and The Rainbirds by Janet Frame 495 pg, ISBN: 9781869417765 Here at last is the opportunity for New Zealand readers to discover two of Janet Frame's most cinematic novels, highly readable and compelling. In STATE OF SIEGE (first published in '66) art teacher Malfred Signal attempts to reinvent herself,leaving her repressed past & domineering family behind, & moves from Otago to Auckland to live on a sub-tropical island. But who is knocking at the door one stormy night? THE RAINBIRDS, first published 1968. Godfrey Rainbird has left his old life behind moving from London to Dunedin. All seems well until he is mistakenly pronounced dead after a car accident. When he awakes from the coma, his family and community struggle to accept not his death but his resurrection.

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