The satire bites.

The book is beautiful and poetic!

Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical novel is one of the most beautifully written story of a middle-class girl struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, creativity, passion vs. her family/society's inflexible "formed opinions".

I felt that Winterson exposed the hypocrisies inherent in the Church's "love the sinner" mentality (as well as many other attitudes) with an extremely sharp sense of saire. She also brings many of these revelations across with a gentle humour which intensifies their irony as it brightens the novel. As a criticism of the Church's often hypocritical views on love and sexuality, this novel was bitingly effective.