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Jeanette Winterson burns her own books in protest at ‘cosy little blurbs’

Written By Unknown on Friday, June 4, 2021 | 6:18 PM

British novelist says republished works were presented as ‘wimmins fiction of the worst kind’

The author Jeanette Winterson has set fire to a pile of her newly republished books after saying she “hated the cosy little domestic blurbs” on them.

In a tweet on Friday night, the author defiantly wrote: “Absolutely hated the cosy little domestic blurbs on my new covers. Turned me into wimmins fiction of the worst kind! Nothing playful or strange or the ahead of time stuff that’s in there. So I set them on fire.”

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