katyboo52 's review for:

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

5.0

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This is a wonderful memoir. Exactly what you would expect of Winterson. It's funny, bleak, fantastical, devastatingly sad and beautifully written. Winterson has the ability to write about herself with both sympathy and a raw sense of honesty. I've loved her writing since the beginning and this, if you've never read Winterson before, would be amazing to read as a companion piece to Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. It's got hints of Alan Bennett with her perfect ear for dialogue and the dark humour of her observations. It's got that macabre sensibility of Dylan Thomas's writing. It's all her own. It's perfect.