Imprint: Vintage
Published: 12/04/2012
ISBN: 9780099556091
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 170g
RRP: £9.99
The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
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.
‘Unforgettable… It’s the best book I have ever read about the cost of growing up’ Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 12/04/2012
ISBN: 9780099556091
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 170g
RRP: £9.99
Unforgettable… It’s the best book I have ever read about the cost of growing up.
A searingly felt and expressed autobiography…Funny and profoundly hopeful – a tale of survival
This book is good, sensible, beautiful company… Try this
Jeanette Winterson’s writing is poetic, emotive and beautiful
Incredibly moving and full of Winterson’s characteristic wit.