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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
I knew Accrington, and Peel Park in particular. But I'm a firm outsider. What else could I be, ever?
Jeanette writes lovingly of that unusual town. Her intonation is perfectly Accy. Her appreciation of (and part in) Accrington humour is precise. If this book does one thing for posterity, it's to tell a wide audience of the values of that small place; its tradition of working-class learning and its pride in itself. She also records its emotional deprivations.
Her difficulties in loving are shown in a kind of artistic contrast. When she writes of being greeted by her family of origin, I wept. When she moved on to sketch her difficulty in accepting that love, I reached the end with a sense of numbed shock.
I hope you find peace and love in the end, Jeanette.
Jeanette writes lovingly of that unusual town. Her intonation is perfectly Accy. Her appreciation of (and part in) Accrington humour is precise. If this book does one thing for posterity, it's to tell a wide audience of the values of that small place; its tradition of working-class learning and its pride in itself. She also records its emotional deprivations.
Her difficulties in loving are shown in a kind of artistic contrast. When she writes of being greeted by her family of origin, I wept. When she moved on to sketch her difficulty in accepting that love, I reached the end with a sense of numbed shock.
I hope you find peace and love in the end, Jeanette.