Winterson?s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which appeared when she was 25, won several awards, and established her not just as a writer, but, in England at least, as a famous writer with an interesting past. The hero is Jeanette, a working-class Northerner whose adoptive mother is an evangelical Pentecostalist with peculiar, and extremely quotable, opinions. When young Jeanette falls in love with another girl, her mother arranges a traumatic three-day exorcism, but Jeanette flees the toxic home and escapes to Oxford University, just as the author did. Oranges has always been described as ?semi-autobiographical,? but in Why Be Happy, Winterson refers to her first novel as ?the cover version.? Now she can describe the more painful reality.
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