Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson OBE is a British writer, broadcaster and activist. 

Her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985 to international acclaim. Winterson's subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, Written On the Body and The Stone Gods, explore the boundaries of physicality and metaphysicality, sexual identities and gender polarities.  Her non fiction works include the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?