Her world exists exclusively within the walls of the church, and as a result it is through the congregation’s eyes that she learns about the world. Until she is 7 years old she is home schooled with the Bible as her main text. Jeanette’s mother envisions that her daughter will grow up to be a missionary for the church, saving the morally damned as such, Jeanette grows up at the heart of her religious community. The narrative begins as the child Jeanette is adopted into a strict English Pentecostal family by a religious couple who desire to have a child without having sexual intercourse. The semi-autobiographical novel was penned by Jeanette Winterson and published in 1985 almost instantaneously it became a classic within both the feminist and LGBT+ movements. When reading Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit you’d be forgiven for imagining the novel was taking place in some distant time and place and certainly not in twentieth century England. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson.
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