Sexing the Cherry

Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.With a new introduction by the author'A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy...needs to be read and re-read' The Times'Read it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling'Cosmopolitan'Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book'Independent'Simple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it, swift, confident and dazzling' Financial Times