Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson Audio Book

When Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, left home at sixteen because she was in love with a woman, Mrs Winterson asked her: 'Why be happy when you could be normal?' This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past returned to haunt Jeanette's later life, and send her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life-raft which supports us when we are sinking.