Written On The Body

by Jeanette Winterson
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'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' The Times

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This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jeanette Winterson traces the topography of desire.

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Literary Love

by Antonia Hayes on 14 February 2012

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Call me a romantic, but I love a good love story. From the electricity of that first glance to the magic of that first kiss, the broken hearts, the foiled plans, the soul mates, the ones that got away, or the screaming ex-wives in the attic, I love all the crazy things our favourite characters do for love. Without a doubt the best affairs of the heart are found between the pages of a good book...

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"Winterson's novels are about exploding our complacent notions of the real, breaking down received ideas of gender, time and space... John Donne wrote, 'Love...makes one little room, as everywhere.' Winterson's novel arrives at a similar affirmation" - Time Out

"An ambitious work, at once at love story and a philosophical meditation on the body...the result is a work that is consistently revelatory about the phenomenon of love" - New York Times Book Review

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