panda
Owls Do Cry
Nineteen forties
New zealand, fiction
Alienation (Social psychology)
Mentally ill
Mental illness
Fiction, historical
Manners and customs
Families
Fiction, general
Social life and customs
Biography
Fiction
Set in provincial, pre-1940 New Zealand, this novel explores the Withers family and in particular Daphne. When one of Daphne's sisters, Francie, dies at the rubbish dump where the children search for treasure, a crisis is provoked which leads Daphne to a mental asylum where she is given shock treatm…
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