Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson penguin whose work she has championed

whose work she has championed

Mary Coleridge

Red falls in love with her married classmate Mara

but in its spareness and strength it feels true

Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson penguin whose work she has championedA beloved contemporary feminist classic and pioneering work of autofictiona funny, poignant exploration of a young girls quirky passage into adulthood Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent 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