Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at sixteen to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
Thought provoking and necessary
*Guardian*
Briskly and breezily, it [12 Bytes] joins the dots in a neglected
narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers
*Observer*
12 punchy, fact-laden and witty essays... Her writing engulfs you
in lucid, fairytale-like realities that take you on gender-bending
and time-warped explorations of religion, love, sex, and sexual
identity.
*Independent*
An unusual and entertaining read...[12 Bytes] is inflected with the
same delightful, dry humour as the rest of her work... With its
imaginative, insightful and wide-ranging essays, 12 Bytes will
undoubtedly prompt readers to begin their own circlings around
AI.
*New Scientist*
Aspects of this AI future are frightening...[and] for any
non-scientist wanting to understand the challenges and
possibilities of this brave new world, I can't think of a more
engaging place to start.
*Observer*
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