I read at first another book by Winterson - "Written on the body" and found it excellent. Then I got this one from a library sail. It's also good, but not as good.

From Amazon:
Jeanette, the protagonist of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and the author's namesake, has issues--"unnatural" ones: her adopted mam thinks she's the Chosen one from God; she's beginning to fancy girls; and an orange demon keeps popping into her psyche. Already Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical first novel is not your typical coming-of-age tale.
Brought up in a working-class Pentecostal family, up North, Jeanette follows the path her Mam has set for her. This involves Bible quizzes, a stint as a tambourine-playing Sally Army officer and a future as a missionary in Africa, or some other "heathen state". When Jeanette starts going to school ("The Breeding Ground") and confides in her mother about her feelings for another girl ("Unnatural Passions"), she's swept up in a feverish frenzy for her tainted soul. Confused, angry and alone, Jeanette strikes out on her own path, that involves a funeral parlour and an ice-cream van. Mixed in with the so-called reality of Jeanette's existence growing up are unconventional fairy tales that transcend the everyday world, subverting the traditional preconceptions of the damsel in distress.

RELEASE NOTES:

Meet-up

Habe das Buch heute aus den "Gelben Seiten" mitgenommen.

Chose it at the Dreikönigstreffen. I wasn't at all sure if I wanted to read this book at first, but I'll give it a try. Never heard of the author before.

I really meant to read this - but there are too many other books I rather want to read and too little time to read them all. So this must go, it may join a few other books in the book case on Lidellplatz.