She falls in love with another girl, and Mother, suspecting Satan is within, subjects Jess to a harrowing exorcism by their fire-and-brimstone preacher (Kenneth Cranham). It’s when Charlotte Coleman takes over as teenage Jess that things really take off. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit > Book Read & Summary Reviews - Z-Lib Main Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit 5.0 / 4. Elsie becomes close friends with Jeanette when Jeanette is sick in the hospital. Goodness and compassion motivate Elsie's actions. She also is one of the rare church members who truly seems to hold a pure form of religion in her heart. When their next-door neighbours start loudly “fornicating” (“What’s fornicating?” asks Jess), Mother bellows hymns to drown out the noise, explaining to her friends from the Pentecostal church: “I don’t even let her watch wildlife programmes.” Elsie probably is the kindest character within the novel. She’s forever asking awkward questions, often getting a clip around the ear for her trouble. Young Jess, played by Emily Aston, is adorable. The bold and blackly witty drama follows the early life of Jess, being raised by her Bible-bashing adoptive mother (Geraldine McEwan) in the Lancashire mill town of Accrington during the Sixties and Seventies. Clocking in at less than three hours, the three-part series is well worth revisiting – whether or not you were among the six million who tuned in at the time. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson: Note by Kathryn Simpson 4. As a tragicomic tale of forbidden love and religious rebellion, it has held up beautifully. This week marks the 30th anniversary of Jeanette Winterson’s triple Bafta-winning BBC adaptation of her semi-autobiographical debut novel. This week's blast from the past is Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1990) Every Sunday, Michael Hogan picks the TV classics that you can now stream and rediscover.

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