Written on the Body: Lambda Literary Award [Paperback]

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author ofThe PassionandSexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.

“At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy’ s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d’argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 withOranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, includingSexing the Cherry,The Passion,Written on the Body, andThe PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel isLighthousekeeping, heralded as a brilliant, glittering, piece of work (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds.US