jeanette winterson oranges are not the only fruit pdf

Sunday was the Lord's day, the most vigorous day of the whole week we had a radiogram at home with an imposing mahogany front and a fat Bakelite knob to twiddle for the stations. One of my earliest memories is me sitting on a sheep at Easter while she told me the story of the Sacrificial Lamb. We had no Wise Men because she didn't believe there were any wise men, but we had sheep. I cannot recall a time when I did not know that I was special. So she did the next best thing and arranged for a foundling. She was very bitter about the Virgin Mary getting there first. She had a mysterious attitude towards the begetting of children it wasn't that she couldn't do it, more that she didn't want to do it.

I had been brought in to join her in a tag match against the Rest of the World. There were friends and there were enemies. At election time in a Labour mill town she put a picture of the Conservative candidate in the window.

She wanted the Mormons to knock on the door. She hung out the largest sheets on the windiest days. She was in the white corner and that was that. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle it didn't matter what. (1985) and more History Lecture notes in PDF only on Docsity!Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson For Gill Saunders and Fang the Cat `When thick rinds are used the top must be thoroughly skimmed, or a scum will form marring the final appearence.' -From The Making of Marmalade by Mrs Beeton `Oranges are not the only fruit' -Nell Gwynn Genesis Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father.

Jeanette winterson oranges are not the only fruit pdf