This first novel by Jeanette Winterson has 25 years under his belt, but it shows him barely. The story is still very amused.
Jeanette, the young heroine of the book grows in England in an evangelical sect. Devils and demons lurk everywhere, but her stepmother is hoping that the child was chosen for the mission. Jeanette believes this also ignores that they cut their classmates - after she has a greater role in their sect and is a successful Bible Teacher. But eventually she realizes that a girl they "erettet" raises quite other than sisterly feelings in her ...
Very nice reading, which caricatured the religious milieu without malice, but with many funny little observations. The characters are also inclined to be without credibility.
In the last third - the coming-out of the girl and the unermeitlichen expulsion from the sect - it is a bit tough and dry, but that may have lain in mind that I read on the train at night and there was quite tired.
All in all
**** (four out of five)
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