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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson — book cover

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson

Costa Book · 1985 · Winner
Literary FictionISBN 9781784877484

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Costa Book of the YearCosta First Novel Award1985Winner

About the Author

Jeanette Winterson (born 1959) is a British author whose debut novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel and was adapted into a BAFTA-winning TV series. Other notable works include The Passion (1987) and Frankissstein (2019, Booker longlist), and she has received the OBE (2006) and CBE (2018) for services to literature.

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