suggsygirl 's review for:

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

3.0

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I wasn’t really sure what to think about this book and I think that actually made me enjoy it more than I might have otherwise. I have never read any other books by this author although I was aware of her work. I liked the style of the book because I often find myself thinking about my own life and history in a non linear fashion and so that makes sense to me. We are absolutely different people and so some of her struggles and thought processes were hard for me to understand. I did grow up in the industrial north though so we share that. This book reminded me of my mum. I grew up with feminist novels on the bookshelves - I know mum had a copy of Fat Is A Feminist Issue by Susan Orbach - who it turns out is the author’s girlfriend, and I think I’ll be passing this to her. Not your usual autobiography but worth reading nonetheless.