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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Written by: Jeanette Winterson
Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
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Shortlisted for: UK Author of the year – Specsavers National Book Awards 2012

When Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, left home at 16 because she was in love with a woman, Mrs. Winterson asked her: "Why be happy when you could be normal?" This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past returned to haunt Jeanette's later life, and send her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft which supports us when we are sinking.
©2011 Jeannette Winterson (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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especially if you love books, writing, women, the north, god, loving, living... life

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