Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Paperback original. 8vo. Pp. ix, 176. Illustrated wraps. Cover design by Marion Dalley in an illustration by Sue Sluglett.

Light crease to top corner of upper cover, tanning to textblock edges, else Fine.

Author's debut novel. Winner of the 1985 Whitbread Award for a First Novel. A semi-autobiographical "coming out" novel set at an English Pentecostal community. A 1990 BBC TV adaptation, starring Charlotte Coleman and Geraldine McEwan, won the 1991 Prix Italia. For a non-fictional account of the author's adoption into an evangelical household in Accrington, Lancashire, see her 2011 memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? "Witty, bizarre, extraordinary and exhilarating." –The Times