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. 'Makes you think and makes you laugh' Nigella 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
