num_pages: 256
description: Instead of growing up to become a missionary as her mother has planned for her, Jess Debden falls in love with another girl, rejects the strident evangelism of her family and walks out of her small Lancashire home town to go to Oxford. Other work by the author of this title includes "Sexing the Cherry".
language: English
title: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
titlecomplete: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
genres: Fiction, Religion, Queer, LGBT, Lesbian, Classics, Feminism, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 76109
places: United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel
publisher: Bloomsbury Classics