Oranges are not the only fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
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"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." --BOOK JACKET.
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English fiction, Lesbians, fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian, England, fiction, Fiction, Families, Lesbians, Teenage girls, Fiction, lesbian, Family, Teenage girls -- Fiction, Christian gays, Family relationships, Christianity and sexuality, Lesbians -- Fiction, England -- Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, romance, lgbtq+, lesbian, Lesbische vrouwen, Jeugdervaringen, Christelijk milieu, Romans en novellen ; vertaald, LGBTQ novelsPlaces
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Oranges are not the only fruit
August 20, 1997, Grove Press
Paperback
in English
0802135161 9780802135162
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Oranges are not the only fruit
July 2, 1991, Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division
Hardcover
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Oranges are not the only fruit
1987, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
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0871131633 9780871131638
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Reprint. Originally published: London ; New York : Pandora Press, 1985.
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"Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father."
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This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.
At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves.
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