Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit animals The family matriarch and keeper

The family matriarch and keeper of all Rummani lore

collaborative performative work

A pivotal book in Isherwood's career that reveals as much about him as the parents he set out to portray

leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit animals The family matriarch and keeperBy Jeanette Winterson Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God fearing household crumbles.