![]() Over 2 years Jeanette rebuilt her building, and later put a shop back on the ground floor where it had been, on and off, since 1810. At that time few people lived around the old fruit and veg market. In 1994 Jeanette did two things left London to live in the Cotswolds, where she still lives, and bought a derelict building in Spitalfields - London’s East End. ![]() Winterson's subsequent novels explore the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities. ![]() By 1987, when The Passion was published, she was earning enough from her work and have done so ever since. After that she was able to write full-time, doing casual work to plug the gaps. The novel was a word-of-mouth success round the independent bookshops. It concerns the relationship between a young lesbian and her adoptive mother, a religious fanatic. She said, ‘If you write it the way you tell it, I’ll buy it.’ Jeanette didn’t get the job but she did write the novel and Oranges was published in 1985. In 1983, at a job interview at the newly formed Pandora Press, Jeanette started telling the boss interviewing her about her idea for a novel called Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. ![]() After graduating, Jeanette worked in the theatre for a while, at London’s The Roundhouse with the legendary Thelma Holt. ![]()
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