Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

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Heartbreaking and funny: the true story behind Jeanette's bestselling and most beloved novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit . In 1985, at twenty-five, Jeanette published Oranges , the story of a girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, supposed to grow up to be a missionary. Instead, she falls... read more

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Jeanette Winterson: Author and character
Mrs Winterson: Jeanette's adoptive mother. Evangelical to the extreme. Obsessive, compulsive and more than a little mad.

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“Reading is where the wild things are.”
Jeanette Winterson

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When my mother was angry with me, which was often, she said, 'The Devil led us to the wrong crib.'

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1The Wrong Crib
2My Advice to Anybody Is: Get Born
3In The Beginning Was The Word
4The Trouble With A Book . . .
5At Home
6Church
7Accrington
8The Apocalypse
9English Literature A—Z
10This Is The Road
11Art and Lies
Intermission
12The Night Sea Voyage
13This Appointment Takes Place In The Past
14Strange Meeting
15The Wound
Coda

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Jeanette Winterson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-224-09345-3
Page Count: 230

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Stonewall Book Award (2013: Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, Honor)

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Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs

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