Living in the Maniototo

Quirky, rich, eccentric

Margaret Atwood

Probably as near a masterpiece as we are likely to see this year... it is a novel full of riches.

The Daily Telegraph (UK)

Puts everything else that has come my way this year in the shade.

The Guardian

The most original and resourceful novel I have read for a long time.

New Statesman

Frame’s novel is remarkable - full of word plays, cameo portraits and deliberate mystery

Publisher’s Weekly

Frame's writing has the unique quality of being both eccentric and central to the precarious business of our psycho-social existence. She offers us expressions of uncommonly articulated but familiar experience. Known for her ability to focus on alienation, madness and death, she is nevertheless capable of affirming the most exquisite sensations of being alive

The Australian

In many ways she (Frame) is incomparable

The Australian

Frame's fiction made [me] feel that I have always been a couple of steps from where I wanted to get in my own writing

Nobel Laureate Patrick White