Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Title: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Author: Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 9780802135162
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 0
Number of Pages: 192
Section: Fiction | Coming of Age
Publisher Description: 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 the truths of her own heart and mind - and on reporting them with wit and passion - makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood.