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Three white Creole girls grow up under the supervision of Lally, their Black nurse. To survive, the girls must leave this island of Dominica for the cold northern lands of England and America. They must return, however, to their past, to the orchid house and to the man they love.

To the is-land. Originally published: New York: G. Braziller, 1982; London: Women's, 1983 -- An angel at my table. Originally published: London: Women's, 1984 -- The envoy from Mirror City. Originally published: London: Women's, 1985.

This autobiography traces Janet Frame's childhood in a poor but intellectually intense family, life as a student, years of incarceration in mental hospitals and eventual entry into the saving world of writers.

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 accl…