An Angel At My Table (Autobiography, Volumes 1,2,3)

After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman. Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. She then went on to become New Zealand's most acclaimed writer. As she says more than once in this autobiography: 'My writing saved me.' Originally published in three separate volumes: To the Is-Land first published in 1982 An Angel at My Table first published in 1984 The Envoy from Mirror City first published in 1985