' A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy... needs to be read and re-read'

—— The Times

' Read it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling'

—— Cosmopolitan

The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tense for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time?

Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points light. What does this say about the reality of the world?

Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and rality; love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

' Simple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it, switt, confident and dazzling'

—— Financial Times

' Winterson juggles past and present, fantasy and reality, to produce an original and rntertaining novel which invites us to re-examine our own perceptions of time'

—— Sunday Times

' Her stories and character levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book'

—— Independent

Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The passion and Written on the Body; a book of short storise, The World and Other Places; a collection of essays, Art Objects as well as many other works, including children's books, screenplays and journalism. Her writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E.M. Forster Award and the Prix d'angent at Cannes Film Festival.