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Notes
1. Other posthumously published works by the Janet Frame Trust include two volumes of poetry, The Goose Bath (2006) and Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems (2008); a volume of non-fiction, Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, edited by Denis Harold and Pamela Gordon (Citation2011); and another of stories, Gorse is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories (2012).
2. In the 1960s Frame published six novels, three volumes of short stories, one volume of poetry and a children’s book.
3. For a Buddhist reading of this part of the novel, see Gabrielle (Citation2015, 145–165).
4. Jan Cronin (Citation2014) also comments that the conclusion recalls “the exploratory nature of Frame’s fiction” (11).