... almost ridiculously endorsed by the mother. However this is not the simple situation that the reader finds, there is an emerging depth to the issue, and we become aware of various angles that it is approached from, giving it the kind of depth and plurality that it would not be able to gain from simple, linear story telling (as Jeanette Winterson herself points out in her introduction). There are twists and turns to the storytelling that do not entirely follow a pattern that makes sense but then that is the power a writer has over the reader, the world the reader experiencing being totally under control by the writer. These methods are presented at various moments on the novel, deviating from the straightforward telling of the story quite a lot but nevertheless written skilfully enough for the attention of the reader not to wander. For example, an odd and clever ...

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