Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
New York : Grove Press [Berkeley, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2012], c2011.
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Notes:

• Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2011.
• Traces the author’s lifelong search for happiness as the adopted daughter of Pentecostal parents who raised her through practices of fierce control and paranoia, an experience that prompted her to search for her biological mother.
• The wrong crib — My advice to anybody is : get born — In the beginning was the word — The trouble with a book… — At home — Church — Accrington — The apocalypse — English literature A-Z — This is the road — Art and lies — Intermission — The night sea voyage — This appointment takes place in the past — Strange meeting — The wound — Coda.

Subjects:

• Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
• Mothers and daughters — Biography.
• Lesbians — Great Britain — Biography.
• Authors, English — 20th century — Biography.

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