Helpful Score: 3
Another home run by Winterson. If you haven't read her debut, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit," yet, read that one first, as this is a companion piece. A brilliant look back on an unhappy childhood and how it helped shape the author, for better and for worse. Some excellent musings, too, on the comforts of literature, and why these are not--and should not be--strictly for the rich or those in the ivory tower.
Great companion book to Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. This book takes on what "really" happened during the same period of her life as the adopted daughter of a fundamentalist Christian. For those who love her books, this is absolutely necessary reading, and for those who've never read her, pick this one up and fall in love. Highly recommended.
This is a sad story of a dysfunctional woman who adopts a child but never accepts her. I did not find any humor in it.
