{"product_id":"oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit-1","title":"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit","description":"\u003cb\u003eJeanette Winterson's explosive first novel, a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLike most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect- adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the scriptures, she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary. But then she converts Melanie, and realises she loves this woman almost as much as she loves the Lord. How on Earth could her Church called that passion Unnatural?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Both a groundbreaking coming-of-age novel and a pioneering work of autofiction, \u003ci\u003eOranges Are Not the Only Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond facts into the deepest truths. Searing and tender, playful and provocative, it is a portrait of the artist as a young evangelist, re-writing her own Bible.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Witty... extraordinary and exhilarating' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides' \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A novel that deserves revisiting' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel' Mariella Frostrup\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit","offer_id":44736167182533,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-78487-904-4.jpg?v=1747726336","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}