Literary Review
Winterson wonderland
One Aladdin Two Lamps Jeanette Winterson (Jonathan Cape, £18.99)
WAS there ever a writer who revisited their formative years quite so regularly as Ms Winterson here?
To be sure, it was by all accounts quite a childhood; but we first had it brought to our attention – with great verve and attack, it has to be said – in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), before having it lavishly reprised in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011).
Now, just when you thought the woodshed had finally been swept clean of juvenile debris, here it comes again, albeit in hybridised and deviously extrapolated shape, in One Aladdin Two Lamps.