Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781409088561
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming
Evening Standard
She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides
Vanity Fair
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
Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming
Evening Standard
wonderful rites-of-passage novel... where the author's blossoming Sapphic nature leads her to eschew her mothers proffered favourite
Mariella Frostrup
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
Still extraordinary, still brilliant
Metro
Wonderful rites-of-passage novel... where the author's blossoming Sapphic nature leads her to eschew her mothers proffered favourite
Mariella Frostrup
An novel that deserves revisiting...Winterson maintains a balance of tone, a trueness of voice... It remains one of the finest things Winterson has written
Natasha Tripney, Observer
Still extraordinary, still brilliant
Metro
It is very funny, with an Alan Bennett sort of humour, beautifully written, quirky and likely to cause much tuttutting in conservative quarters
Daily Mail
A novel that deserves revisiting...Winterson maintains a balance of tone, a trueness of voice... It remains one of the finest things Winterson has written
Observer
This lesbian coming of age story set in northern England doesn't seem to have aged a bit.
Katy Guest, The Independent
It is very funny, with an Alan Bennett sort of humour, beautifully written, quirky and likely to cause much tuttutting in conservative quarters
Daily Mail
She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides
Muriel Spark, Vanity Fair
This lesbian coming of age story set in northern England doesn't seem to have aged a bit
Independent
An instant classic
Rosemary Goring, Herald
You'll find everything you need to know about mustering the courage to embrace your true self and live life without fear in Winterson's hugely engaging semi-autobiographical novel
Mariella Frostrup, Sunday Times
Characterised by Winterson’s bold and experimental style, this is a book with darkness and light about what it means to live your own truth
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