Cover art for Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Published
Vintage Arrow, June 2025
ISBN
9781529954470
Format
Hardcover, 256 pages
Dimensions
20.5cm × 13.5cm × 2.4cm

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A beautiful hardback edition of Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel- a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic.

'I love her.'

'Then you do not love the Lord.'

'Yes, I love both of them.'

'You cannot.'

'I do.''

This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect- adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the scriptures, she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary. But then she converts Melanie, and realises she loves this woman almost as much as she loves the Lord. How on Earth could her Church called that passion Unnatural?

Both a groundbreaking coming-of-age novel and a pioneering work of autofiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit goes beyond facts into the deepest truths. Searing and tender, playful and provocative, it is a portrait of the artist as a young evangelist, re-writing her own Bible.

'Witty... extraordinary and exhilarating' The Times

'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides' Vanity Fair

'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' Evening Standard

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