- Title:
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Towards Another Summer
- Written by:
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Janet Frame
- Read by:
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Heather Bolton
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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6 hours 48 minutes
- Published:
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August 01 2022
- Available Date:
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August 01 2022
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781038615220
- Genres:
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Fiction; General Fiction; Literary Fiction; New Zealand Fiction; Psychological Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Award winning author
New Zealand author
Towards Another Summer is a meditation on the themes of exile and return, homesickness and not knowing where home really is. It is suffused with beauty and tenderness and shot through with self-deprecating humour and frailty.
Grace, the protagonist, is taking a break from writing a long novel and seems to be losing her grip on daily life in London. She feels more and more like a migratory bird as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life in England seem transitory. The desire to leave behind the social human agonies of appearing neither too clever nor too stupid, too helpful or too lazy, becomes overwhelming for Grace.
Frame's observational prowess is apparent in Towards Another Summer in the vivid and heartbreaking passages about children and childhood and in Grace's growing awareness of the demanding forces of social convention.
'No literary curiosity but a deeply rewarding and beautiful novel.'
The Guardian
'Maybe Frame took pleasure in the thought of a novel appearing after her death, one that touched so closely on her essential nature, and reminded the world of her remarkable artistry.'
The Daily Telegraph
'A piercing, poetic revelation.'
The Observer