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How was Janet Frameās autobiography adapted into the film An Angel at My Table?
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Front cover of the Spiral Press first edition of Keri Hulme's The Bone People (1983).
The 1990 film An Angel at My Table, directed by Jane Campion, serves as a faithful and critically acclaimed adaptation of the three-volume autobiography by New Zealand writer Janet Frame.12
The source material for the film consists of the three autobiographical works published between 1982 and 1985: To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City. Originally produced for New Zealand television, the film captures Frameās life story, spanning her impoverished childhood, her struggles with mental health and misdiagnosis, her time in psychiatric institutions, and her eventual emergence as a successful writer.123