- 1984 edition, 195 pages
- Published by Hutchinson Group NZ
- Hardcover with dust jacket, blue boards
- Good condition, wear and tear to dust jacket
Volume Two of Janet Frame's autobiography begins with her train journey from Oamaru to Dunedin to begin life as a student at Teachers' Training College and Otago University. Her shyness and insecurity made her 'different' and this, coupled with a clumsy suicide attempt, led to the first of her incarcerations in a mental hospital '....a concentrated course in the horrors of insantity.'
Faces In The Water described in detail her experiences over the following eight years but it was the publication of her first book The Lagoon And Other Stories which won for her the Hubert Church Award for the best prose and which persuaded the authorities that her impending leucotomy should be cancelled.
Her initial meeting with Charles Brasch, the declaration of her sanity and most importantly, the support of Frank Sargeson, bring a change of mood from one of 'a doomed eternity, all hope abandoned', to a pervading though tentative optimism. Through Frank Sargeson's acceptance of her as a person, his interest in her writing and the support of the Karl and Kay Stead, begins her emergence into a normal lifestyle and her growing sense of the freedom to be herself. When with Frank Sargeson's help she receives a grant from the Literary Fund, she is able to travel overseas and broaden her experience.
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