Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of and . 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.