Why be happy when you can be normal?

In the book «Why be happy when you can be normal?», first published in 2011, Jeanette Winterson returns to the story of her childhood in foster care, which inspired her semi-autobiographical novel «Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit» (1985), —... this time placing it in a memoir framework. Her youth in an industrial town in northern England, the difficulties of growing up against the expectations of her foster parents, fervent Pentecostal Christians — the resolution of this story is dictated by life itself. The hope for liberation from an aimless past is given by her passion for British literature and love for words, which Jeanette Winterson not only carries through the decades but also makes her craft. Setting out to find her biological mother twenty-five years later, she reclaims her past experiences, learns to love, and reconciles with herself.