A Women's Press classic
2 total works
This is the second volume in Janet Frame's autobiography, in which New Zealand's most distinguished living novelist 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 prizewinning collection of stories won her a discharge.
This first novel tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. Janet Frame is the author of The Carpathians, which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989.