About the Book
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette’s version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival.
This book is that story’s silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true.
This book is that story’s silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true.
What we think
“Winterson is a truly great writer and her searingly honest account of growing up, how we learn to deal with our own lives, with who we are and who we want to be is as dark as it is joyful. There are no words that can do this book justice. It simply has to be read.”
Also by Jeanette Winterson
Novels: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body
