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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

  • Jeanette Winterson

4.20

5 ratings

Memories of the author about her difficult childhood as the adopted daughter of an English mother with strong religious convictions, and her subsequent search for her biological mother.

Genres

  • Women authors
  • Childhood and youth
  • Biography
  • English Authors
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Lesbians
  • Lesbians, biography
  • Authors, biography
  • Family
  • English Novelists
  • Biographies
  • Enfance et jeunesse
  • Famille
  • Romanciers anglais
  • Lesbiennes
  • Families
  • LGBTQ biography and memoir
  • Stonewall Book Awards
  • Lambda Literary Awards
  • Lambda Literary Award Winner
  • New York Times reviewed
  • collection:judy_grahn_award=finalist
  • Authors, english
  • English Women authors
  • Écrivains anglais
  • Écrivaines anglaises
  • Winterson, jeanette , 1959-
  • Lesbians--england--biography
  • Authors, english--biography
  • Mothers and daughters--biography
  • Pr6073.i558 a3 2012
  • 823/.914
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About the author

  • Jeanette Winterson

    born 1959

    3.73

    56 ratings · 59 works

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    Contemporary French Fiction

    2013-08-03

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    Rebis

    2012-01-01

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    LUMEN

    Jan 26, 2012

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    Sel Yayincilik

    Nov 06, 2015

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Periscopi

2021

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    6e dr.

    Atlas Contact

    2013

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    Contact

    2011

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    Periscopi

    2021

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    Periscopi

    2021

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    Mondadori

    2012

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    Brilliance Audio

    Mar 12, 2013

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    Lumen

    2020

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    Grove Press

    Mar 12, 2013

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    Brilliance Audio

    Nov 25, 2014

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    Éd. de l'Olivier

    2012

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    Knopf Canada

    Oct 25, 2011

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    Penguin Random House

    2012

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    Vintage Canada

    Jul 31, 2012

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    Large print ed.

    Windsor

    2012

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    [1st American ed.].

    Grove Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West

    2011

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    Jonathan Cape

    2011

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    Record

    2014-01-01

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    Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

    2012

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    Penguin Random House

    2011