The Maybe Islands

The Stone Gods by Jeanette WintersonLondon: Hamish Hamilton, 2007(to be published in the US by Houghton on April Fools Day 2008)I first encountered Jeanette Winterson through her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a fairly naturalistic account of growing up lesbian in a working-class Pentecostal family in northern England. After that I read her novels more or less as they appeared in