![]() ![]() Janet’s autobiography had an enormous effect on me. It is actually 3 volumes: To the Is-land, An Angel at my Table and Envoy from the Mirror City. ![]() ‘One of the most beautiful and moving books I have ever read. The autobiography is very memorable and enjoyable. This edition contains all three volumes of Frame’s autobiography: To the Is-Land, An Angel at My Table and An Envoy from Mirror City. As she says more than once in this autobiography: ‘My writing saved me.’ She then went on to become New Zealand’s most acclaimed writer. ![]() She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. ‘The Janet Frame of An Angel at My Table is a writer of exceptional sensitivity’ LOS ANGELES TIMESĪfter being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. ‘Irresistibly readable, commendably honest’ FLEUR ADCOCK, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘One of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century’ MICHAEL HOLROYD, SUNDAY TIMES With An Angel at My Table, Academy Awardwinning filmmaker Jane Campion brought to the screen the harrowing autobiography of Janet Frame, New Zealands most. ![]()
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