Gifted

Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2010. Slight bumping at top of spine, but otherwise good secondhand copy.

One day in 1955, the father of New Zealand fiction finds a young woman on his doorstep. A writer herself, she has recently emerged from a lengthy stay in the hospital for mental health problems and is seeking a safe place to live and write. The woman is Janet Frame, and the man who willingly takes her in is Frank Sargeson. Imaginative and intriguing, this novel explores two famous New Zealand personalities through a fictionalized account of the time they spent living together.