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Wouldn’t you like to be normal?

Lucie Elven: Janet Frame’s Place, 8 May 2025

The Edge of the Alphabet 
by Janet Frame.
Fitzcarraldo, 296 pp., £12.99, August 2024, 978 1 80427 118 6
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... she was last in an institution, she achieves a tonal distance between herself and her story. As Fleur Adcock wrote in the TLS, ‘she can be both detached and passionate at the same time.’ The effect is to suggest that a situation might be comic even when it is harrowing. King said of his interviews with her that she told the story of her life ‘in ...

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