![]() ![]() It is actually 3 volumes: To the Is-land, An Angel at my Table and Envoy from the Mirror City. Janet's autobiography had an enormous effect on me. The autobiography is very memorable and enjoyable. As she says more than once in this autobiography: 'My writing saved me.'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.'One of the most beautiful and moving books I have ever read. 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. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective and imaginative power' Michael Holroyd, Sunday TimesAfter being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTELOne of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century. It is one of the classics of autobiography. ![]() ![]() 'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. ![]()
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