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:

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 she said about them. But I know that novelists have to be careful about copying from reality just in case someone sues them and no publisher will take on a book that they could end up getting sued over.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

I suppose the question of litigation depends on whether what she wrote, in a work of fiction, based on her life, was true or not.

I suppose only the people involved will know that.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Seriously? And you don't think that an enforced exorcism might not be grounds for prosecution in itself?

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Thats assuming that actually happened!!...As she says herself...its part autobiographical and part fiction, and obviously we dont dont which is which!!


Best Regards - Taggy

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 (her parents) were really upset by what she'd said about them. But they would not want to sue her as they didn't.

I only read the book around 2004 and I thought the writing was very compelling and well written - a page turner as they say but tried the second one "Sexing the Cherry" and I couldn't get into it.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

I saw it.

Her Accringtonian accent's still spot on, to say she's lived away from the area for the majority of her life.

She came across very well.

Intelligent and humorous.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

If it's the Elim church on Blackburn Road she went to - I don't doubt it for a second. Bunch of nutters they were.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Did you arrive at this judgement after attending there yourself?

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Only by your measure .

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. Now, I don't know if her essay's are available on line, or if they are only available in hard copy; but irrespective I would suggest that those of you who view her has a great daughter of the town try and take a long hard look at what she has written and I have no doubt you will then revise your opinion.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

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.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Give me Mystic Meg any day!!! :mosher:

Best Regards - Taggy

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

It does not take too much imagination to think of several themes on which Accy could develop a little tourist trade; sadly, the twisted memories of some frustrated lesbian in exile is not one of them.

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

So can we take that as a No Tealeaf?:D

Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist
 

Who you kiddin' guv'nor?

You now sound so cosmopolitanly metropolitan, it's like you were sired by Jim Davidson and Marie Lloyd.

:D