This study investigates how Janet Frame weaves together literary sources from her extensive
reading to create a web of intertextual relationships. Patricia Neville traces Frame's passion
for books beginning with her childhood and earliest published work in the Otago Daily Times.
Drawing on new research and through close readings of Frame's novels she discusses the effects
of Frame's borrowings from the Bible and Shakespeare and from writing from New Zealand Britain
France and the USA. A fascinating read not only for scholars but for all admirers of Janet
Frame's fiction.
