An Autobiography by Janet Frame Janet Frame, New Zealand's preeminent writer, 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. 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, and into her entrance in the saving world of writers, we follow Frame's journey of self-discovery. From New Zealand to London to Paris to Barcelona and home again, it is heartfelt and courageous account of a writer's beginnings as well as one woman's personal struggle to survive. PA, ISBN: 0807612596 $17.50 (Can: $26.00)