Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?
Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?
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 the 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...
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