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In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table . Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship—a 'living memorial' to the poet Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the French Riviera town of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room is not suitable—it has no electricity or water. Hurndell never wrote here, though it is expected of Harry. Janet Frame's previously unpublished novel draws on her own experiences in Menton, in the south of France as a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. It is a wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of the dead author, and—in the best tradition of Frame—a fascinating exploration of the complexity and the beauty of language. Janet Frame , New Zealand's most highly acclaimed author, was born in Dunedin in 1924 and died in 2004. Her first book, The Lagoon and Other Stories , was published in 1952. Frame went on to publish eleven novels, another three short-story collections and a book of poetry during her lifetime, and another novel, a short-story collection and a book of her poems have

Who reads In the Memorial Room?

Author

Frame, Janet; Van Booy, Simon

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781925240153

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.28 / 5 (126 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14