Why be happy when you could be normal?
Memories of the author about her difficult childhood as the adopted daughter of an English mother with strong religious convictions, and her subsequent search for her biological mother.
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
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North Kingstown, RI : Grand Haven, MI :
AudioGO ; Brilliance Audio,
p2011.
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| Edition: | [Library ed.] |
| Series: | Brilliance Audio on compact disc.
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| Summary: | Memories of the author about her difficult childhood as the adopted daughter of an English mother with strong religious convictions, and her subsequent search for her biological mother. |
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| Item Description: | Unabridged. Compact disc. Duration: 6:09:00. |
| Physical Description: | 5 sound discs (ca. 369 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time: | 06:09:00 |
| ISBN: | 9781469201931 1469201933 9781469201924 1469201925 |
| Author Notes: | 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. (Bowker Author Biography) |
