![]() Winterson says that Oranges was an alternate version of the true story of her life-it was a version she could “survive.” In Why Be Happy, Winterson seeks to find happiness and remedy her difficulty giving and accepting love, which leads her to try to come to terms with her childhood trauma and to seek out her birth mother. She was eventually admitted to Oxford, and, shortly after graduating, published her first book-the highly successful and deeply autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. After being expelled from her home and community following a second lesbian relationship, Winterson lived in her Mini Cooper, worked odd jobs, and attended a junior college. Winterson was emotionally and physically abused as a child-subject to beatings, to being locked out of her home, to being barred from reading any secular literature, and, after her parents discovered her lesbian relationship, to a grueling exorcism. Winterson, who frequently told Jeanette that “the Devil led to the wrong crib” when they picked her. Winterson grew up in a strict and deeply religious household ruled by her tyrannical, mercurial adoptive mother, Mrs. ![]() ![]() The writer and protagonist of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson is an author who was born in Manchester in 1959 and adopted at six months old by the Winterson family of Accrington. ![]()
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