[mobertol]

I love "Oranges..." and have a video of the drammatisation, I identify with a lot of it (though in my case it was a catholic up-bringing -gruesome bloody statues in church, being told we were born with original sin etc etc...)

The x-stitch sampler, bulb planting etc are very familiar, as my mum (who taught her for a year) used to try them out on me and my sister at home! I knew Mrs Virtue (a much older colleague of mum's) whose name she used to embody all her teachers, wonderfully fitting for the novel!

The fair on Ellison's tennament, the Accy Vic., the fish market, the ladies in the sweet shop etc - it's actually a very accurate description of how it was growing up here in the 70's and not detrimental to the town at all...

Of her other work, I've read Sexing the Cherry and some essays - not as easy to follow though.