Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Jeanette Winterson
About this listen
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.
'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'
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. 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.
'Witty… 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
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- Anonymous User
- 05-05-2022
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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- 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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- Sam
- 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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- Hunter Adams
- 13-06-2016
Incredible.
the most important book I've read to date. wonderfully written and incredibly insightful; profoundly comforting.
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