A very good memoir, and an especially good audiobook. What makes this is good audiobook is that Jeanette Winterson is the reader here, and like with a lot of memoir audiobooks, that makes all the difference. In some ways this book follows a lot of the same history as Winterson’s fist novel, the kind of autobiographical Oranges are not the only Fruit, but we clearly see the difference in a lot of ways. Jeannette, as a baby, is given up for adoption and found and raised […]
When my mother was angry with me, which was often, she said, “The Devil led us to the wrong crib.”
Why be Happy when you could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
