Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Condition:Like New Three Lives is "a fine

Three Lives is "a fine new kind of realism

The styles are as varied as the authors

this important book offers a window on a time of human madness and the hope that history will not be repeated

artistic differences

skilful stories by modern writers from South Asia

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Condition:Like New Three Lives is "a fineIn 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Written when Jeanette was only twenty five, her novel went on to win the Whitbread First Novel award, become an international bestseller and inspire an award winning BBC television adaptation.