An invitation to change our lives and imagine the world anew through reading stories in the
new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit I can
change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming a woman is fighting for
her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two
Lamps cracks open the legendary story of One Thousand and One Nights to show how its questions
are still relevant to our lives today. Is love the most important thing in the world? What
makes us happy? In her guise as Aladdin Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we
know and look again at how fiction works in our lives giving us the courage to change our own
narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman with no
obvious future beyond factory work or marriage Winterson realised through the power of books
that she could read herself as fiction as well as fact. Weaving together fiction magic and
memoir this remarkable book is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a
radical step into the future - an invitation to look more closely at our own stories and to
imagine the world anew. 'Enchanting unexpected and razor-sharp' Kamila Shamsie 'One of the
most gifted writers working today' New York Times In her hands words are fluid radiant
humming' Evening Standard
