An Angel at My Table

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This is the second volume in Janet Frame’s autobiography, in which she tells of how she left the close-knit family home in Oamaru for teacher training college in Dunedin.

Her college years were a time of intense loneliness that culminated in an attempted suicide and commital to a mental institution.

Labelled as a schizophrenic, Janet spent eight harrowing years in psychiatric hospitals until the publication of her prize-winning collection of stories won her a discharge.