A review by emily_bronte
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

5.0

because I was like a flare sent out into the world - a way of saying that she was here - a kind of X Marks the Spot. 
She hated being a nobody, and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice