The Lagoon and Other Stories

The Lagoon and other stories was Janet Frame's first published book. It appeared in New Zealand in 1951 but until now, has not been published elsewhere in English.
At the time of its first publication Janet Frame was in a mental hospital and when the book went on to win the Hubert Church Award, it was decided that she should be spared a threatened leucotomy operation.
As she says in her autobiography, 'My writing saved me.'