Entrancing... fabulous... Its language retains the clear music of poetry'
Sunday TelegraphSet in the 17th century,
Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. This is the story of Jordan, an orphan found floating on the River Thames, and his keeper, The Dog Woman, a huge and monstrous creature with a powerful right hook and a wide vocabulary. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.
Author ProfileJeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including
Oranges are not the Only Fruit, The Passion and
Sexing the Cherry; a book of short stories,
The World and Other Places; a collection of essays,
Art Objects as well as many other works, including children’s books, screenplays and journalism. Her writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the Prix d'argent at Cannes Film Festival.
ReviewsHer stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life..A bold, bizarre and timely book,Her strangest and most challenging fiction,Winterson juggles past and present, fantasy and reality, to produce an original and entertaining novel which invites us to re-examine our own perceptions of time,It runs on the fuel of imagination...highly entertaining...an exploration of the elasticity of time and reality
