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Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at sixteen to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
I loved Night Side of the River. Jeanette Winterson is one of the wittiest writers around today… I can't think of any other writer who can treat death and horror with such lightheartedness and pragmatic cheerfulness but without losing the cold-yet-cosy frisson that comes with all the best ghost stories. MR James would be very happy! -- Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language * Evening Standard * A captivating and chilling collection examining grief, revenge and how technology can breach the boundary between life and death * Sunday Express * Spine-chillingly good * i * Winterson is always passionate and provocative * New Statesman * A thought-provoking collection of short stories… The theme that runs through all the stories is loss and how it haunts the living * Daily Mirror * A collection of ghost stories that range from campfire-level spooks to speculative reflections on the meaning of life.. As challenging and entertaining as anything undertaken by this endlessly ingenious writer * Los Angeles Times * In these enjoyable tales Winterson has ably served the genre, while also sketching some unsettling future directions the ghost story might take * Literary Review * Memorable… These supernatural tales are satisfyingly disconcerting * Publishers Weekly * This collection is as hair-raising and suspenseful as it is witty and thought-provoking * UK Press Syndication *
