She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life-raft which supports us when we are sinking.įunny, acute, fierce and celebratory, this is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother.Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. It is the story of how the painful past Jeanette Winterson thought she had written over and repainted returned to haunt her later life, and sent her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother. 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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