June's Book Club: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson, 1985)

Tue Jun 02 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm UTC+01:00

Curzon Oxford | Oxford

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June's Book Club: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson, 1985)
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Join us at the Valkyrie Book Society for likeminded bookish women as we read Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson.
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson


‘I love her.’
‘Then you do not love the Lord.’
‘Yes, I love both of them.’
‘You cannot.’
'I do.''
This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect: adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the scriptures, she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary. But then she converts Melanie, and realises she loves this woman almost as much as she loves the Lord. How on Earth could her Church called that passion Unnatural?
Both a groundbreaking coming-of-age novel and a pioneering work of autofiction,Oranges Are Not the Only Fruitgoes beyond facts into the deepest truths. Searing and tender, playful and provocative, it is a portrait of the artist as a young evangelist, re-writing her own Bible.


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