A review by thestoryofaz
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

This novel is bursting with scope and brimming with possibilities and impossibilities. The prose is limitless, there is no boundary or barrier that the words do not cross or do not hope to cross. At once, it is a homage and parody of works preceding it; it is also capable of standing on its own as something entirely new. This is to be free, this is to flow. As the story warns of the dangers of cliché, it is entirely devoid of any. The sexless unnamed narrator, their lingering memories of romances profound and insignificant, and the unknown fates of Louise and other characters add on to the ever-prevailing pervasive sense of mystery shrouding this one acid-high-cerebral-dream of a novel.