In 1983, at a job interview at the newly formed Pandora Press, Jeanette started telling the boss interviewing her about her idea for a novel called Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Since 2012 Jeanette is also Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester.Īfter graduating, Jeanette worked in the theatre for a while, at London’s The Roundhouse with the legendary Thelma Holt. She wrote and performed work for the Sixty Six Books project, based on a chapter of the King James Bible, along with other novelists and poets including Paul Muldoon, Carol Ann Duffy, Anne Michaels, and Catherine Tate. She also supported the relaunch of the Bush Theatre in London's Shepherd's Bush. Winterson's story was published in the Fire collection. In 2009, she donated the short story "Dog Days" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, which comprised four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Winterson's stage adaptation of The PowerBook in 2002 opened at the Royal National Theatre, London. The shop Verde’s is still owned by Jeanette, and run by Harvey Cabaniss, who has made it into a successful business. Over 2 years Jeanette rebuilt her building, and later put a shop back on the ground floor where it had been, on and off, since 1810. At that time few people lived around the old fruit and veg market. In 1994 Jeanette did two things left London to live in the Cotswolds, where she still lives, and bought a derelict building in Spitalfields - London’s East End. Winterson's subsequent novels explore the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities. By 1987, when The Passion was published, she was earning enough from her work and have done so ever since. After that she was able to write full-time, doing casual work to plug the gaps. The novel was a word-of-mouth success round the independent bookshops. It concerns the relationship between a young lesbian and her adoptive mother, a religious fanatic. She said, ‘If you write it the way you tell it, I’ll buy it.’ Jeanette didn’t get the job but she did write the novel and Oranges was published in 1985. After graduating, Jeanette worked in the theatre for a while, at London’s The Roundhouse with the legendary Thelma Holt.
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