Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2014, Penguin Random House)

240 pages

English language

Published May 21, 2014 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-09-959818-3
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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.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, lesbian
  • Mothers and daughters, fiction
  • Great britain, fiction