In the Memorial Room

'In the Memorial Room is filled with terrifyingly beautiful reflections on how writing books (and even reading them) can feel like digging your own grave. It also serves as a sly warning to those of us who obsessively cherish the works of dead writers-even writers as good as Janet Frame. Watch out! The death you memorialize may well be your own.' New York Times Book Review 'Frame's sentences are marvels, winding like narrow alleys through hill towns: They open spectacular vistas. Brilliant.' -- Kirkus Reviews 'Delightful, funny and profound.' Metro Magazine (NZ) 'Not just a brilliant novel but a considered and poignant posthumous literary act, a curtain call by one of the world's greatest authors...A deeply funny book.' Weekend Australian '[In the Memorial Room] is a formidable work. It is also amusing, satirical, poetic and provocative - a real joy to read.' Sunday Star Times 'Reading this is like finding an unwrapped gift long-hidden at the back of the wardrobe. The novel is quite unlike anything else Frame penned, yet she is recognisable in every pore of every sentence and of every word. Her love of language is infectious and so, too, is her sense of humour.' NZ Herald 'A deliciously mischievous piece of fun, this is sharp social satire, ruthless in its mockery of literary pretension.' -- Caroline Baum, Booktopia 'The writing is exactly what we expect from Frame-gorgeous, delirious and shining with delight.' -- bookiemonster.co.nz 'The layers of meaning and reference, autobiographical elements, vivid and poetic language, characterisation and satire in Frame's second posthumously published novel In the Memorial Room show again why she is one of New Zealand's literary greats.' Otago Daily Times 'A beautifully crafted artistic and philosophical creation that explores the nature of communication and exposes Frame's love of language.' Library Journal