Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

This title, the winner of the 1985 Whitbread Award for a First Novel, chronicles the struggles of a young girl against a domineering mother and the strictures of religion. The novel takes a look at religious excess and human obsession.

"A fresh voice with a mind behind it is just what we need now in the literature of the English language and certainly Jeanette Winterson provides it...She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides." - Muriel Spark

"The most interesting young writer I have read." - Gore Vidal