I have had this book on my shelf for some time now being only a small book I was saving it for a wet afternoon, it took only a few hours to read.
I can say I am glad that I have read it and I am looking to see if I can find it on BBC iplayer to watch the television adaption of it.
However I am clearly under educated or blind so all the hype about this book, two things stood out for me.
Inside the books storyline are mini stories which seem to have no relevance on the main story, why are they included?
I can't pretend that I wasn't confused by mini legends that slipped into the book as odd sections. I just don't understand them!
She stated in the foreword, that she wrote the story in spirals? what the fuck? After the first couple of chapters I nearly put the book down but I thought no it will get better but to me it didn't
Having read the Amazon reviews I didn't find it funny at all, maybe I have a sense of humour by pass?
The book by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985, which she subsequently adapted into a BBC television drama. It is about a lesbian girl who grows up in an English Pentecostal community.
The book won Winterson the Whitbread Award for a First Novel in 1985 and is used widely in schools as part of A level course work.
Quotes:
“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”
“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”
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