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The New York Times #8211;bestselling author's Whitbread Prize#8211;winning debut#8212;"Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel" ( The Washington Post Book World ). When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson's extraordinary debut novel received unanimous international praise, including the prestigious Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Winterson went on to fulfill that promise, producing some of the most dazzling fiction and nonfiction of the past decade, including her celebrated memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? . Now required reading in contemporary literature, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl's adolescence. Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette's insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind#8212;and on reporting them with w

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Author

Jeanette Winterson

Publisher

Grove Press Book

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802135162

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.75 / 5 (182 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14