It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night about a tyrant in place of a mother, who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the duster drawer, waiting for Armageddon about growing up in an northern industrial town now changed beyond recognition, part of a community now vanished about the Universe as a Cosmic Dustbin. This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. When Jeanette finally left her home, at sixteen, because she was in love with a woman, Mrs Winterson asked her: why be happy when you could be normal? Mrs Winterson, a thwarted giantess, loomed over that novel and its author's life. Written when Jeanette was only twenty-five, her novel went on to win the Whitbread First Novel award, become an international bestseller and inspire an award-winning BBC television adaptation. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published.
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