num_pages: 195
description: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereThis 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.
language: English
title: An Angel at My Table
titlecomplete: An Angel at My Table (Autobiography, #2)
genres: Autobiography, Mental Health, Female Authors, Biography Memoir, Biography, 20th Century, Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 172
series: Janet Frame Autobiography
publisher: George Braziller