posted on 2024-11-12, 16:56authored byDorothy Jones
Grace Cleave, a New Zealand writer living in London and heroine of Janet Frame’s novel, Towards Another Summer, undergoes a mysterious transformation prompted by weather reports of a slow thaw spreading from the west: ‘you see, during the night Grace Cleave had changed to a migratory bird’ (6). There are echoes here of Kafka’s story ‘Metamorphosis’: