"Owls Do Cry is Janet Frame's first novel. She explains its inspiration thus: Pictures of great treasure in the midst of sadness and waste hauted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for main characters, and inventing minor characters." -- Back cover.
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