Boating for Beginners

Jeanette Winterson

Minerva, 1990 - Fiction - 160 pages

A pleasure boat company is transformed when the proprietor, Noah, is chosen by the One True God to put sunny faith back in the world and women back in the kitchen. The author has written Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, (winner of the 1985 Whitbread award) and Sexing the Cherry

About the author

Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959 and graduated from St. Catherine's College, Oxford. Her book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, is a semi-autobiographical account of her life as a child preacher (she wrote and gave sermons by the time she was eight years old). The book was the winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction and was made into an award-winning TV movie. The Passion won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize for best writer under thirty-five, and Sexing the Cherry won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Boating for Beginners; A Mandarin paperback; A Minerva paperback; Methuen modern fiction; Methuen paperback
• Author: Jeanette Winterson
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Minerva, 1990
• ISBN: 0749391510, 9780749391515
• Length: 160 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Boating