![]() ![]() ![]() Her publisher, Pandora Press, also published handbooks for women, so Winterson, a long time keep-fit enthusiast, wrote a fitness book for the imprint in 1986. ![]() If 'Boating for beginners' was unexpected, her next book 'Fit for the future' could have only furthered the confusion for those following Winterson's career. Completely different in tone and following on so quickly from her debut, it confounded both critics and readers. It retells the story of Noah and the Flood in an irreverent style, and was written by Winterson in three weeks prior to the publication of 'Oranges'. Much less well known than her first novel, Winterson now lists it separately from her other books and calls it a 'comic book'. She published her second novel 'Boating for beginners' in 1985 only three months after her first. It would be adapted into an award winning BBC TV drama in 1990 and become a set-text at A Level, and is now regarded as a classic.Īt only 24 Winterson was an unusually prolific young writer. She had got off to a stellar start in 1985 with her first novel 'Oranges are not the only fruit', which won the Whitbread Prize for a first novel and was an instant success. In 1986 she had been a writer for under a year and was engaged in the difficult task of trying to earn a living with her pen. ![]() Jeanette Winterson is an established novelist, children's writer, journalist and academic. ![]()
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