Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?The shocking, heart breaking and often very funny true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit The shocking, heart breaking and often very funny true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful