Written on the Body

Part love story, part philosophical treatise, part anatomical guide, Written on the Body defies categorisation, dispensing with clichés and stereotypes to forge, from the raw physicality of the body itself, a new language for love. – Jamei Qautro * Guardian *
Winterson’s novels are about exploding our complacent notions of the real, breaking down received ideas of gender, time and space… John Donne wrote, “Love…makes one little room, as everywhere.” Winterson’s novel arrives at a similar affirmation * Time Out *
An ambitious work, at once a love story and a philosophical meditation on the body…the result is a work that is consistently revelatory about the phenomenon of love * New York Times Book Review *

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.

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