Winterson describes growing up in Accrington, a small, working-class town in northern England which relies heavily on industry. She hopes that her memoir inspires other people to escape abusive environments to find somewhere they truly belong. It wasn’t until adulthood that Winterson came to terms with her upbringing and felt able to talk about it. Enduring years of emotional and sometimes physical abuse, she was made to feel ashamed of her sexual identity. There is nothing easy about Winterson’s childhood. When she isn’t writing books, she’s working on newspaper and magazine columns. Before writing full-time, Winterson worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press. Her upbringing informs much of her writing. Winterson is an English author who grew up in a strict Pentecostal Evangelist household. The book won the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography and received various other award nominations. In her LGBT memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (2011), Jeanette Winterson describes her troubled childhood and urges readers to consider what it means to belong somewhere.
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