An Angel at My Table

Laura Jones adapted Janet Frame’s autobiographical books To The Is-Land, The Envoy From Mirror City, and An Angel At My Table for this New Zealand made-for-television miniseries which dramatizes her youth, when she was wrongfully confined in a mental institution for eight years, and her subsequent acclaim as a writer after her release., Bittersweet biography of writer Janet Frame (Kerry Fox), chronicling her battle with overwhelming shyness and subsequent emotional breakdown. Young Janet: Alexia Keogh. Teenage Janet: Karen Fergusson. Mum: Iris Churn. Dad: K.J. Wilson. Myrtle; Melia Bernecker. Isabel: Glynis Angell. June: Sarah Smuts-Kennedy. Directed by Jane Campion.