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Old 25-03-2010, 10:58   #85
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Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

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Originally Posted by StevenWaling View Post
Personally, I think Jeanette has as much right as any other victim of child abuse (that's basically what the "exorcisms" were) and homophobia to say what she likes about the town where she had to live through those experiences. As a victim of bullying at that baleful hellhole, Accrington Grammar School, I entirely sympathise.

And yet despite all that, she is still one of the best British novelists currently writing.
I don't think anyone's denying her talent, or the fact she's lucky to have the skills to write of her experiences growing up in Accrington in the sixties/seventies, or her prominence in the literary world.

Let's just hope there are fewer Jess's receiving the same treatment today.
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