This is a novel of exile and return that Janet Frame felt too autobiographical to be published in her lifetime. It is an exquisite work shot through with tenderness and Frame's characteristic self-deprecating humour.

A posthumously published first novel by the Nobel Prize-nominated author of An Angel at My Table finds self-styled writer and social-anxiety-disorder sufferer Grace Cleave reluctantly accepting an invitation to spend a weekend in northern England, where she remembers her native New Zealand and comes to regard her London existence as transitory.

First published January 1, 2007