Jeanette Winterson
She is a wonderful writer, and her website is really good too, including a great collection of poets and poems she likes and admires. If you have the time it's worth a look.
Wisdom for the credit crunch from Dickens: “My other piece of advice, Copperfield,” said Mr. Micawber, “you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and, in short, you are for ever floored. As I am!”
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I always imagine her face as the child actress who was in 'Oranges are the only fruit'
Yes that was a brillant dramatisation, she mentions on the blog some beef with the BBC about it's preservation.
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