I think she takes her place in that family. She wrote her first novel (Owls Do Cry) while staying with her mentor Frank Sargeson, and then left New Zealand, not to return for seven years. I read a review online that the character marginalized to the detriment of the story was the mother. She sought the support and company of fellow writers and set out single-mindedly and courageously to achieve her goal of being a writer. She returned to society, but not the one which had labelled her a misfit. Owls do cry Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. She continued to write throughout her troubled years, and her first book (The Lagoon and Other Stories) won a prestigious literary prize, thus convincing her doctors not to carry out a planned lobotomy. The story of her almost miraculous survival of the horrors and brutalising treatment in unenlightened institutions has become well known. She spent four and a half years out of eight years, incarcerated in mental hospitals. Held in Circa’s Circa One stage, it doesn’t. Desperately unhappy because of family tragedies and finding herself trapped in the wrong vocation (as a schoolteacher) her only escape appeared to be in submission to society's judgement of her as abnormal. Directed by Malia Johnston Circa Theatre 3-13 November Review by Emilie Hope Owls Do Cry will be a unique theatre experience for every person. The fate befalling the young woman who wanted 'to be a poet' has been well documented.

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