Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

[garinda]

Originally Posted by garinda

Haworth has the Brontes.

Accrington has Sapphic Jen.

Perhaps a whole tourist industry might spring up because of the association, and you could move back, dress up as one of her characters, and lead the masses on walking tours of notable literary sites.

Forget the Acorn Trail.

Accrington could have it's own Winterson literary trail, using ancient Christian symbols to guide visitors, which ably illustrate the link.

Just leave out the five loaves.

[Tealeaf]

I've got a better idea:

[B]Burnley 5 miles ->

Jeanette Winterston Trail 5 miles ->[/b]

[StevenWaling]

Originally Posted by garinda

Did you arrive at this judgement after attending there yourself?

Err, yes...

though not all the time. Most of the time it was Christ Church, which was also pretty crazy but slightly less so. Northern Irish proddy vicar.

I was pretty crazy in those days.

[StevenWaling]

I am now totally sick and tired of people praising the virtues of this woman on the simple basis that she came from Accy. I do not know how many of you are daily readers of the Times, but until very recently, Ms. Winterston had a fortnightly saturday column in the paper; as such, she took every opportunity to rubbish the town

Far as I can see, she's not saying anything other than the truth. It is a pretty ****ty place, it was when I was growing up and it still is.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by StevenWaling

Err, yes...

though not all the time. Most of the time it was Christ Church, which was also pretty crazy but slightly less so. Northern Irish proddy vicar.

I was pretty crazy in those days.

Er....then you might have benefited from a good exorcism then.

To banish your 'crazy' demons.

[StevenWaling]

Originally Posted by garinda

Er....then you might have benefited from a good exorcism then.

To banish your 'crazy' demons.

Yes - I needed to banish the demon of fundamentalism in order to find a real faith...

[garinda]

Originally Posted by StevenWaling

Yes - I needed to banish the demon of fundamentalism in order to find a real faith...

Lovely.

It's nice, when the cripple finds their crutch.

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by StevenWaling

Suheir Hammad, Hisham Matar, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson | Southbank Centre.

Jeanette is appearing at the South Bank in April.

She was on Newsnight just before the election as a political pundit, singing the praises of Nick Clegg and she did say he'd win the election that it was "Clegg Power" time!