Warwick Stubbs’s Reviews > Living in the Maniototo > Status Update

Imagining Blenheim as just a 'suburb' of Auckland, Janet Frame writes with incredible detail about an author trying to write fiction, moving from her home in Taranaki to Berkley, sister city of Blenheim. But this is all fiction too, and Frames rich prose moves through poetic accompaniments effortlessly, never falters and enriches the lives of every character the ink falls on.