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"The best critical book on Mansfield. Reading Mansfield and the Metaphors of Form places her texts in the new intellectual context of the 1990s and provides close readings of many stories which are wholly original and immensely valuable. New's interpretations of such key texts as "Prelude" and "Je ne parle pas français" are perceptive, wise, and illuminating. The book is extremely well written -- energetic, lucid, persuasive, direct and its style and tone create the sense that the reader is closely engaged with a vigorous and authoritative mind." Roger Robinson, editor of the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (forthcoming)