- English fiction, Lesbians, fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian, England, fiction
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she 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.
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Prestige, grave, intimate and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Jeanette Winterson
- First published
- August 1991
- Pages
- 183
- Publisher
- BBC Audiobooks, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., Audible Studios on Brilliance
- Editions
- 40
- Language
- Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780871131638
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“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father.”
Jeanette Winterson is an British author. Her first book, *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,* was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages.
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