In 'Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn?' geeft Jeanette Winterson zich voor het eerst helemaal bloot. In dit boek beschrijft ze haar vroegste jeugd, de problematische relatie met haar adoptiemoeder, de breuk met haar adoptieouders en de zoektocht naar haar echte moeder. Openhartig, pijnlijk eerlijk en rauw: 'Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn?' geeft een heel nieuw inzicht in de ontwikkeling van het schrijverschap van de auteur van o.a. 'Kersen kruisen' en 'De passie'.

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tende...

A masterful and eerie collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson

Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.

We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.

We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they hau...

'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers' Observer

Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding and provocative essays from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson

Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about Artificial Intelligence in its bewildering manifestations, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science, to help us understand the radic...