A novel of loss and love, and a philosophical meditation on the body. The author also wrote Sexing the Cherry, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which won the 198... » 

A novel of loss and love, and a philosophical meditation on the body. The author also wrote Sexing the Cherry, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which won the 1985 Whitbread Prize and became an award-winning BBC dramatization, and The Passion, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. «