Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist - Page 11

cashman · 02-11-2011, 15:30

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Originally Posted by garinda

She was interviewed on North West Tonight yesterday, too.

Saying although it was hard, she was glad she was adopted, and brought up in Accrington.

Yep watched it, even though her stepmam sounded a real fruitcake,she said it was preferable to being brought up in n institution.

garinda · 02-11-2011, 17:35

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Originally Posted by cashman

Yep watched it, even though her stepmam sounded a real fruitcake,she said it was preferable to being brought up in n institution.

Made me laugh when she said her mum kept a revolver in the tea towel drawer.

Convinced the end was nigh.

Thought she spoke very well about adoption, and how shameful it is only sixty children were adopted in the whole country last year.

cashman · 02-11-2011, 18:20

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Originally Posted by garinda

Made me laugh when she said her mum kept a revolver in the tea towel drawer.

Convinced the end was nigh.

Thought she spoke very well about adoption, and how shameful it is only sixty children were adopted in the whole country last year.

Yeh n the bullets in a tin of pledge.

like i said a fruitcake.

jaysay · 02-11-2011, 18:46

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

She is on BBC News tomorrow morning sometime between 6am - 9am

She was on this morning Dave, she looked like she got her clothes from oxfam and had been dragged through a hedge backwards, her hair was a real mess

garinda · 02-11-2011, 18:51

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Originally Posted by jaysay

She was on this morning Dave, she looked like she got her clothes from oxfam and had been dragged through a hedge backwards, her hair was a real mess

Can't all be as well groomed as Valerie Singleton.

Thought myself, quite a smart looking young chap.

jaysay · 02-11-2011, 19:18

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Originally Posted by garinda

Can't all be as well groomed as Valerie Singleton.

Thought myself, quite a smart looking young chap.

Behave

garinda · 02-11-2011, 19:23

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Behave

Sorry.

Was only joking.

Didn't really think 'smart looking'.

jaysay · 02-11-2011, 19:53

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Originally Posted by garinda

Sorry.

Was only joking.

Didn't really think 'smart looking'.

MargaretR · 02-11-2011, 23:11

I am listening to her new book as Book of the Week on Radio4
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Book of the Week, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Episode 2

garinda · 03-11-2011, 08:48

She spoke very eloquently, even fondly, of her adoptive parents, and being brought up in Accrington, on BBC Breakfast, just now.

jaysay · 03-11-2011, 09:43

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Originally Posted by garinda

She spoke very eloquently, even fondly, of her adoptive parents, and being brought up in Accrington, on BBC Breakfast, just now.

Ya I thought she was very interesting too(don't know where I saw her yesterday) in fact, although I've never read any of here books in the past, I may just be tempted to read her latest book, which is a true account of her life from all accounts. I'm not really an auto-bio fan but this sounds interesting

thindle · 03-11-2011, 12:52

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

She lives in trendy Spitalfields, a few hundred yards from where I'm writing this. I think she also has a pad in france. She is a chum of Tracey Emin; I used to see 'em togeather in a pub in the days when I was'nt lazy & used to walk home.

The interesting thing is that as well as banging out the odd article for the Times & the london Standard, she has a grocers shop, also in Spitalfields. It has all the trendy organic stuff in there, plus the old-fashioned preserves....plus sweets in a jar. In fact, it looks just like an Accy corner shop of the 1960's...odd that, init!

She wants to stay there. We don't need her kind in Accy. I see she calls her adoptive parents when they're dead, and can't answer to her claims.
I have seen her Oranges etc and it's a load of rubbish.

cashman · 03-11-2011, 13:00

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Originally Posted by thindle

She wants to stay there. We don't need her kind in Accy.

well she aint my favourite person, but wasn't aware yeh were royalty thindle.

garinda · 03-11-2011, 13:06

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Originally Posted by thindle

She wants to stay there. We don't need her kind in Accy. I see she calls her adoptive parents when they're dead, and can't answer to her claims.
I have seen her Oranges etc and it's a load of rubbish.

She wrote Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, indeed it was dramatised and broadcast, whilst her parents were alive.

Her mother used the press, to give her side of the story.

What 'kind' don't we need round here?

Writers?

Adopted children?

Oxbridge graduates?

People with a high media profile, both nationally, and internationally?

Ginger haired folk?

garinda · 03-11-2011, 13:20

If she was subject to things similar to this as a child, carried out in a Pentecostal church in Accrington, I'd have thought it just the sort of material a writer might use, when writing about their own life, at some time in their career.