Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Keynote

A special celebratory edition to mark the 21st birthday of Vintage books.

About the Book: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

The is the story of Jeanette, adopted and rought 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 fo 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.

Reviews

• 'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides' - Muriel Spark, Vanity Fair
• 'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' - Evening Standard
• 'Even at a time when so many good and interesting novels are coming out, hers stand out as performances of real originality and extraordinary promise' - John Bayley
• 'wonderful rites-of-passage novel… where the author’s blossoming Sapphic nature leads her to eschew her mothers proffered favourite' - Mariella Frostrup

Author Biography: Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including Oranges are not the Only Fruit, The Passion and Sexing the Cherry; a book of short stories, The World and Other Places; a collection of essays, Art Objects as well as many other works, including children’s books, screenplays and journalism. Her writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the Prix d'argent at Cannes Film Festival.

Previous Titles

9780099462316 Art And Lies

9780099590019 Art Objects

9780099530244 Oranges are Not the

Only Fruit Anniversary Edition

9780099747208 Sexing The Cherry

9780099734413 The Passion

9780099285434 The Powerbook

9780099478270 The Waves

9780099274537 The World And Other

Places

9780099193913 Written On The Body