In the Memorial Room by Janet Frame (author of An Angel at My Table) is a newly published novel ten years after Frame's death and forty years after it was written.
Harry Gill has been awarded the Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship, and he arrives in the small French village of Menton, only to find the Memorial Room where he is supposed to write, cold, dank and with no facilities.
Frame is a wonderful writer, and this is quite a funny little novel based on her own year in Menton as winner of the Mansfield Fellowship. Frame is one of New Zealand's greatest writers; if you haven't read her yet, you should.
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