Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery - Jeanette Winterson

A novelist whose honours include England's Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy' s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d'argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit . Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry , The Passion , Written on the Body , and The PowerBook , have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping , heralded as a brilliant, glittering, piece of work ( The Independent ). She lives in London and the Cotswolds.