Doors: 18:30

Time: 19:30

Date: 22 Jul 2025

Location:

Hebden Bridge Picture House, New Road, Hebden Bridge HX7 8AD

Cost: £15 Plus booking fee

Tickets

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome renowned writer Jeanette Winterson to Happy Valley Pride for a very special talk focusing on her groundbreaking debut novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She was adopted by Pentecostal parents and raised to be a missionary.

After leaving home at 16, she did a variety of jobs while studying, and later took a degree at the university of Oxford.

Her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published in 1985. In 1990, she adapted it for a 3-part BBC TV series. It won a BAFTA for best Drama.

In 2011 she revisited some of that material in her bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

In 2011 she revisited some of that material in her bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson has written over 20 books - fiction and non-fiction, plus endless amounts of journalism. Her work is published around the world. Fun Fact - she has a big readership in China.

Her 1992 non-binary novel Written on the Body was named one of the top 25 post-war Queer novels by the New York Times.

Fun Fact - her portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery next to Kate and Wills.

Her essays about AI - 12 Bytes at AI - have taken her to tech conferences all over the world.

Her latest book of short stories is Night-Side of the River. Ghost stories from the past and the future.

Jeanette's talk will be followed by a Q&A.

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