A review by ssgcedits
Love: Vintage Minis by Jeanette Winterson

reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

A beautiful reflection on love, its many forms, virtues and downfalls. Winterson analyses some of her own writing, life experiences, and others' reactions and reviews, placing them in the wider context of the contemporary world. The result is an ode to human connection in the form of a literary tapestry.

My favourite passage:

 Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to fly from the body once and for all. Lovers have been known to have heart attacks. Lovers drink too much from nervousness and cannot perform. They eat too little and faint during their fervently wished consummation. They do not stroke the favoured cat and their face-paint comes loose. This is not all. Whatever you have set store by, your dress, your dinner, your poetry, will go wrong.