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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • Published: 04/09/2014

  • ISBN: 9780099598183

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 170g

  • RRP: £8.99

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender,

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.

With a new introduction by the author

'Witty, bizarre, extraordinary and exhilarating'
The Times

'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides'
Vanity Fair

'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming'
Evening Standard

'A novel that deserves revisiting' Observer

'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel'
Mariella Frostrup

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • Published: 04/09/2014

  • ISBN: 9780099598183

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 170g

  • RRP: £8.99

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About the Author

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester in 1959. She is the author of over twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Tanglewreck, Art Objects and The Stone Gods. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit won her the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, and Winterson adapted the novel for television in 1990. She has also been the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E.M. Forster Award and two Lambda Literary Awards, which are given to works that explore LGBTQ issues. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester.

Jeanette Winterson

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