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. This is the story of Jeanette born to be one of
God's elect: adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the
scriptures she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary. But then she converts
Melanie and realises she loves this woman almost as much as she loves the Lord. How on Earth
could her Church called that passion Unnatural? Both a groundbreaking coming-of-age novel and a
pioneering work of autofiction Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit goes beyond facts into the
deepest truths. Searing and tender playful and provocative it is a portrait of the artist as
a young evangelist re-writing her own Bible. Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines
jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.
