Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson

WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? By Jeanette Winterson World Book Night Edition April 23rd 2013 I was chosen as a given for World Book Night and the book I was giving was this one. I had not previously read it so I decided to keep one copy after I had given the other nineteen away and take this lone copy with me on holiday and I would then give it to someone on my travels. The author also wrote “Oranges are not the only Fruit’ which she also adapted for TV as well. This book is not a follow up but more of an explanation and filling in the gaps of ‘Oranges’. In ‘Oranges’ she retold her ... more

January's choice I have recently joined a Book Club, and this was the choice for January 2013. It is a (sort of) memoir by the author Jeanette Winterson, who is a novelist and wrote Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, which was published back in 1985 and is remembered as much for the TV programme of the same name as the book itself. The book Oranges was said to be semi-autobiographical (in fact the main character in that book is called Jeanette), but this book is said to be "that story's silent twin". The blurb continues: "It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the ... more