A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy...needs to be read and re-read ? The TimesRead it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling ? CosmopolitanSimple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it, swift, confident and dazzling ? Financial TimesWinterson juggles past and present, fantasy and reality, to produce an original and entertaining novel which invites us to re-examine our own perceptions of time ? Sunday TimesHer stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book ? Independent Biografía del autor

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn?t work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, 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. She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.