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Written on the Body

Pages
190
Published
1998
Language
English

Synopsis

This novel explores a passionate and consuming affair between a narrator, who remains unnamed and genderless, and a married woman. It's a story about desire and the complexities of love, told with Jeanette Winterson's signature evocative prose.

About the author

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is an British author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society o...

Characters

The Married WomanProtagonist
The BelovedSupporting
All characters in Written on the Body