

"I wrote about some of these things in Oranges, and when it was published, my mother sent me a furious note". The book is semi-autobiographical and is based on Winterson's life growing up in Accrington, Lancashire. It has been included on both GCSE and A-Level reading lists for education in England and Wales, and was adapted by Winterson into a BAFTA-winning 1990 BBC television drama serial of the same name.

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