Owls Do Cry. Janet Frame

      

       ALSO BY JANET FRAME

      NOVELS

       Daughter Buffalo

       Faces in the Water

       The Edge of the Alphabet

       Scented Gardens for the Blind

       The Adaptable Man

       A State of Siege

       Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room

       Intensive Care

       Living in the Maniototo

      STORIES AND SKETCHES

       The Lagoon

       The Reservoir

       Snowman Snowman

       Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun

      POETRY

       The Pocket Mirror

      Copyright © 1960 by Janet Frame

      Counterpoint Edition 2016

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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      ISBN 978-1-61902-869-2

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       CONTENTS

       PART ONE

      TALK OF TREASURE

       PART TWO

      TWENTY YEARS AFTER

      TOBY

      CHICKS

      DAPHNE

       EPILOGUE

      ANYONE WE KNOW?

       Where the bee sucks, there suck I;

       In a cowslip’s bell I lie;

       There I couch when owls do cry;

       On the bat’s back I do fly,

       After summer, merrily.

       THE TEMPEST.