Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Besides not being 'strawberry blond', Jeanette was the bashed, and exorcised, so it's doubtful Karen Buckley could play the part of the protagonist.

Perhaps she might consider another character, central to the action.

Mother, perhaps?

Since she's strong on 'family values', and they carry out exorcisms at Baptist churches in Lytham.

:rolleyes:

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Is she famous for anything else , one 'notable' book in 25 years is hardly a catalog of a lifetime spent in the persuit of literature . :rolleyes: :confused:

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

She's won subsequent literary awards, for other books.

She's almost certainly in the top five of the most visible female writers in the country, helped by her journalism and television appearances.

Her books are listed here...

Jeanette Winterson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Don't forget her corner shop, down near me. Someone on here posted that they'd seen her in Accy ASDA; she was probably buying in 20kilos of tomatos at £1.78/kg to take back to London and flog 'em off in the shop as 'Accy's finest organic', at ten quid a kilo...a nice little earner.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Tomatoes are not the only fruit....she might do bananas too.

:D

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

I'll check it out....I'm up by Spitalfields market tomorrow dinnertime.

I'll ask if Jeanettes in and I'll also ask if she does discounts for honest Accy folk, like myself.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

She was buying Kids clothing actually!!;)

Best Regards - Taggy

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

:eek: MR thats terrible lol

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

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.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

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.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Another whinger jumping on the abuse bandwagon. I suppose you'll be sueing Lancashire County Council next, demanding ten million quid in damages for childhood emotional trauma, incurred in the 50's and 60's. It's total crap. What you experianced was character building and if you don't realise that, you must be a total wimp.

And as regards Winterston...I would rather read a Katie Price autobiography than that sh**e.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

We all know that you are really doubly proud of the association.

There's the Accrington one, and your own, as a close neighbour in the capital.

The next thing we'll hear is that you've bought a camper van, and parked up in her Cotswold village.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

And I suppose you were one of the bullies were you? Wouldn't be surprising from someone who could call Gilbert & George "a pair of puftahs."

Get back to the '50's, you throwback.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

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

Jeanette is appearing at the South Bank in April.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Hey...do you mind...we try to be civilised on this website.