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 writt en 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 fie rce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness an d out ag...[Read more]