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Living In The Maniototo

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781844084609

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‘All I had experienced, all the stories I had read or dreamed came to me the moment I, a stranger, turned the key in the lock of the unknown house.’

In a sweltering basement in downtown Baltimore, Mavis Halleton, writer, ventriloquist and gossip, is struggling to write her novel when an unexpected invitation arrives. The Garretts, a couple Mavis has never heard of but who admire her work, are to spend time in Italy and offer the use of their airy home in the Berkeley hills.

During her stay, an earthquake hits northern Italy and Mavis, to her surprise, inherits the house. But, surrounded by museum replicas and tasteful imitations, she finds reality itself is on shaky ground.

In this highly inventive novel, reality, fiction and dreams are woven together as Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction.

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Probably as near a masterpiece as we are likely to see this year . . . it is a novel full of riches
Martyn Goff, Daily Telegraph
Quirky, rich, eccentric
Margaret Atwood
She treats the book like one of those miniature glass balls which snows when you shake it. Playful, deft work, then, by a writer of eccentric strengths
Kirkus Reviews
A clever, high-spirited performance
New Yorker
Puts everything else that has come my way this year in the shade
Guardian