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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson
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Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry.

The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.

©1985 Jeanette Winterson (P)2015 Audible, Ltd
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  • 10-03-2016

Soothing reading of an outstanding book

Jeanette tells the story so well, her impersonations are hilarious! She has a unique and well-articulated view of feminism.

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  • A_M
  • 27-09-2016

A must read for foundlings, misfits & blacksheep

Semi auto biographical novel read by the author on growing up a misfit, adoptee in England's north. Her story of self discovery, her evangelical upbringing and her lesbian identity combine with a keenly inquiring mind to create this wonderful, curios tale. Rarely does a book range elegantly, sweetly, sorrowfully over the complexity of love & belonging and the quest to make peace with it all and still win a life for oneself.

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my second read after 36 years

Enjoyed it a second time and despite acceptance of unconventional sexuality, families are the groundbreakers the encouragers the acceptors. When families are stuck in their own bias and bigotry, the marginalised will never be free.

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Incredible.

the most important book I've read to date. wonderfully written and incredibly insightful; profoundly comforting.

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