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.
This book contains selections from the long out–of–print collection entitled Janet Frame: An Autobiography (George Brazillier, 1991), which itself was originally published in three volumes: To the Is–land, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City.'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration in mental hospitals, eventually followed by her entry into the saving world of writers and the “Mirror City” that sustains them, we are given not only a record of the events of a life, but also “the transformation of ordinary facts and ideas into a shining palace of mirrors.”įrame’s journey of self–discovery, from New Zealand to London, to Paris and Barcelona, and then home again, is a heartfelt and courageous account of a writer’s beginnings as well as one woman’s personal struggle to survive. New Zealand’s preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. The autobiography of New Zealand’s most significant writer
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