Written in 1963 when acclaimed New Zealand writer Janet Frame (An Angel at My Table) was living in London, this is the first publication of Towards Another Summer, a novel she considered too personal to be published while she was alive. In it, “self-styled” writer Grace Cleave spends a weekend away from London in the north of England. Once there, she feels more and more like a migratory bird, as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life away from it seem transitory.
"In this deeply personal novel of exile and loneliness, Janet Frame proves the master of nostalgia, beauty, and loss. Frame is, and will remain, divine." —Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)
"As true and as piercing as anything I have read in a very long time." —The Observer
