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• Stonewall Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013)
• Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/ Biography (2013)
• Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2013)
• The Publishing Triangle Award Nominee for The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction (2013)

In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival.This book is that story's silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother, and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest, and true.

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