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First novel, 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel.  Multiple award winner.
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First novel, 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel.  Multiple award winner.  Famously belligerent feminist. The much-lauded novelist recently sparred with the green-wellies brigade when she labelled Country Life magazine "a bunch of gay-bashers".

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Country

Great Britain

Birth - Death

1959 -

Occupation

Writer

Notable Achievements

OBE

Whitbread Prize

Description

First novel, 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel. Multiple award winner. Famously belligerent feminist. The much-lauded novelist recently sparred with the green-wellies brigade when she labelled Country Life magazine "a bunch of gay-bashers".