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Sexing the Cherry

Jeanette Winterson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:4th Sep '14

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Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into the air, their lives together will take them on a dizzying journey through space and time.

As past and present collapse and centuries overlap, love, sex, truth, lies and twelve dancing princesses take centre stage.


'Entrancing...fabulous...

'A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy...needs to be read and re-read' The Times


On the banks of the Thames a baby is found floating. Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into the air, their lives together will take them on a dizzying journey through space and time.

As past and present collapse and centuries overlap, love, sex, truth, lies and twelve dancing princesses take centre stage.


'Entrancing...fabulous... Its language retains the clear music of poetry' Sunday Telegraph

'Simple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it, swift, confident and dazzling' Financial Times

'Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book' Independent

A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy...needs to be read and re-read * The Times *
Read it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling * Cosmopolitan *
Simple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it, swift, confident and dazzling * Financial Times *
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 * Sunday Times *
Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book * Independent *

ISBN: 9780099598176

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm

Weight: 158g

192 pages