Description:

This brand new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame’s career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories have been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in *Between My Father and the King*. The piece 'Gorse is Not People' caused Frame a setback in 1954, when Charles Brasch rejected it for publication in *Landfall* and, along with others for one reason or other, deliberately remained unpublished during her lifetime. Previously published pieces have appeared in *Harper's Bazaar, the NZ Listener, * the *New Zealand School Journal, Landfall* and *The New Yorker* over the years, and one otherwise unpublished piece, 'The Gravy Boat', was read aloud by Frame for a radio broadcast in 1953. In these stories readers will recognize familiar themes, scenes, characters and locations from Frame's writing and life, and each offers a fresh fictional transformation that will captivate and absorb.