![]() ![]() Jeanette’s mother is heavily involved, obsessed even, with the local Pentecostal church and is grooming young Jeanette for a future as a church missionary. There were friends and there were enemies (pg. In the eyes of Jeanette’s mother, everything is either black or white, either good or evil. ![]() As the novel opens, we begin to get a sense of Jeanette’s world and the dominant role her adoptive mother plays in her life – there is a father, but he’s largely absent from the story. Oranges is narrated by Jeanette, a young girl living in a working-class family in the North of England. ![]() I recall watching the 1990 TV adaptation with my mother – it screened shortly before she died – but it’s taken me far too long to get around to the book. In 1984, Jeanette Winterson wrote Oranges are not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel in which she draws on elements from her own life she was twenty-four at the time. ![]()
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