Jeanette Winterson's Blog

It is Christmas! I love it! I can't help it. I have loved it since I was a child and I just can't give it up.
I have included a Christmas extract from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - specifically Christmas in Accrington.

I am not leaving out Hanukkah or Diwali - just that this is Christmas for me. I have even had a huge Christmas sign painted and put up in my house in Spitalfields. Here is the photo. It is Christmas! I love it! I can't help it. I have loved it since I was a child and I just can't give it up.
I have included a Christmas extract from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - specifically Christmas in Accrington.

I am not leaving out Hanukkah or Diwali - just that this is Christmas for me. I have even had a huge Christmas sign painted and put up in my house in Spitalfields. Here is the photo. It is Christmas! I love it! I can't help it. I have loved it since I was a child and I just can't give it up.
I have included a Christmas extract from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - specifically Christmas in Accrington.

I am not leaving out Hanukkah or Diwali - just that this is Christmas for me. I have even had a huge Christmas sign painted and put up in my house in Spitalfields. Here is the photo.

Another Christmas. I love Christmas. I have always loved Christmas. I always will love Christmas.
Why? Three reasons. The Personal. The Spiritual. The Animal.

And so it is Advent Sunday and the beginning of the Christmas season in all its mystery and strangeness. Already in the Cotswolds it has begun to snow, and in my studio my stove is flaring red, and through the long windows there is the white of the snow and the grey underside of birds' wings.

Yippee! No more moose Mom! Sarah Palin is back in Alaska! How happy are we? God Bless America! You did it!

At last the site has been up dated, and just in time for Christmas. As usual, at Christmas, I'll be adding a festive story on the 22nd of December. It will be published in The Times that day, and go on-line here, just for you. What's it about? A donkey, a frost, a little girl, and something unexpected.

And no, I haven't forgotten the Christmas Story - my own, or the one in the Bible - both will appear on the site on Saturday 23rd of December - or you can get a copy of the Times that day, and find all sorts of fun in the Books Section, including myself, and another story - I shall not reveal all. Well worth the buy!

Christmas is about celebration and contemplation.

Every year on December 1st, Advent, I put up my ancient home-made Advent calendar, stick new chocolates inside the little doors, and take great pleasure in opening one every morning, and eating the choc with my first cup of coffee.

I am deep into a new book for children - not a picture book this time, but a story for 8-12 year olds. My god-children love their stories, and as they get older, so must the things I invent to amuse them. Still, it amuses me, so it's a pretty good deal.

It's a rainy December morning, and I am sitting in a little room in my house, with the fire lit, and what light there is from the dull day, illuminating me.
The cats are round about, curled up asleep, because going out isn't fun anymore, and we are all wishing it would snow.

A little bit late this month, because there is so MUCH TO DO. Why does everyone want everything before Christmas? The work is non-stop, and on top of that I'm expected to go shopping.