Notes

First published: 1957.
New Zealand author.
NZ Literary Fund award for Achievement 1958.
Set in provincial, pre-1940 New Zealand, this novel explores the Withers family and in particular Daphne. When one of Daphne's sisters, Francie, dies at the rubbish dump where the children search for treasure, the crisis leads Daphne to a mental asylum where she is given shock treatment.