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An Angel at My Table
Originally a mini-series in favour of Chic Zealand TV, this deep and pathetic conversion of Janet 's autobiography effectively launched the business of Kerry Fox. Though grand in scope it demonstrates a versifier's eye for exhaustively and not once does Fox sound a wrong note. Divided into three chapters, it follows Mount from her childhood in 20s New Zealand, throughout her adolescence and subsequent treatment for a mentally ill illness she didn't give birth to. ("Two hundred applications of electro-revolt treatment," runs Frame's narration. "Each one equivalent in be to an execution.") Yet in all respects all of this she continues to record, and after her make available from hospital she tours Europe's bohemian salons, long run conclusion success as an pri...
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