Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what' n n This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

n n At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. n n 'Witty...

extraordinary and exhilarating' The Times n n 'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides' Vanity Fair n n 'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' Evening Standard n n 'A novel that deserves revisiting' Observer n n 'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel' Mariella Frostrup n