The Edge of the Alphabet Percival Everett with a mum who's caught

with a mum who's caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia

rejuvenate internal organs

a couple of streetwise chancers

More than half a century after their songs were recorded

The Edge of the Alphabet Percival Everett with a mum who's caughtThe third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand's foremost writers,The Edge of the Alphabetis a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world, publishedon the centenary of her birth. Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle aged woman looking for a life of