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Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 20-02-2014, 17:54
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Jeanette is on Question Time - BBC 1 tonight (20/Feb/14) again!
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 14-12-2012, 16:35
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

People who get some fame always have an alure, strange how if your ex suddenly becomes famous or gets a bit of celebrity (no matter how small) - how suddenly they become attractive again in the light...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 11-12-2012, 17:08
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

She has the luxury to keep going over this and selling it as a book - many people have had worse lives and still have - she is lucky that she's made money and has a relatively good life - others...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 08-12-2012, 15:52
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

I think Jeanette doesn't feel she quite fits in with Accrington or belongs - I know the feeling! Which is why she stated she has mixed feelings about going back there.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 07-12-2012, 16:52
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

They weren't - the Mother died first and had the father's name put on the grave in advance apparently. But when he died, later on - Jeanette didn't know where here grave was so she buried him in...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 06-12-2012, 17:22
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

It was enjoyable watching her life but we don't all have the luxury to write books about our childhoods and talk about them on TV.

Waz wondering if she is being creative with the past? - I lived...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 06-09-2012, 00:07
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Are you joking (again!) :D

She was often seen walking up the bowling green and coppice with her yorkshire terrier before she became a literary genius.:rolleyes:
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 04-09-2012, 12:47
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

So did anyone know Jeanette well back in the 70's?
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 04-09-2012, 10:56
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

I haven't taken that many drugs. I do have a large book collection.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 16-03-2012, 23:17
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

I would think if they nipped down the library they could also borrow a copy! ;)
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 09-11-2011, 16:42
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Footballer John Fashnu and his brother (I think he was a twin) were adopted and one committed suicide apparently! Kate Aidy was too!:cool:
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 29-10-2011, 14:55
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

I remember that view well down the back street - with Karrimor at the bottom!
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 28-07-2011, 11:10
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Her Mother I think hasn't done her any harm, I think that she perhaps made her what she is today and helped mould her to become a writer, it may have been a dysfunctional upbringing but it obvioulsy...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 16-07-2011, 15:36
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

She weren't born in Accrington was she - I think it was Manchester then put up for adoption or something!

Here is a video I uploaded of her talking about her favourite books...
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Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 23-05-2010, 06:33
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

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!
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 27-03-2010, 10:57
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

She was on the box last night, Newsnight Review, I only caught the last few minutues.

I recall my mother told me back in the 80's, we lived on Water Street, that her father told her that they...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 25-03-2010, 17:04
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

By the way that photo link doesn't go where it's supposed to. Don't they have to disguise the characte anyway just in case they get sued? Her parents probably could have sued her anyway for what...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 25-03-2010, 17:00
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

No not really, I suppose it was a remarkable quality, and with all her money who wouldn't be :confused:
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 24-03-2010, 09:03
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

I managed to catch Jeannette on the BBC news Am last week, just by accident really. How does she manage to remain so Jolly?

Saw last part of "Oranges..." last night and I wonder if it had stood...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 06-02-2010, 14:13
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

So perhaps she visits and has a drive round on the sly, they say the older you get, the stronger the desire to return to the place you were brought up becomes! :mosher:
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 06-02-2010, 11:47
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Question Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

How do you know it was her for sure?
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 01-12-2009, 17:10
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By kestrelx
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

I read "Oranges..." and it was very good gave an insight to the girl I used to see regularly on the coppice walking a little Yorkshire Terrier, my brother Phil used to walk with her to School as he...
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