Category: LGBT, Literature, Novel
Language: EnglishKeywords: Autofiction Coming of Age England
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Read by Jeanette Winterson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged
Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanetteâs insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mindâand on reporting them with wit and passionâmakes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood.
Audio Release Date:
March 8 2019
6 hrs and 2 mins
Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanetteâs insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mindâand on reporting them with wit and passionâmakes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood.
Audio Release Date:
March 8 2019
6 hrs and 2 mins