Written on the Body

By Jeanette Winterson

Heat level

Steamy

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.

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Forbidden LoveRelationship Secret RelationshipRelationship Unrequited LoveRelationship

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Severity reflects intensity, not value — “central theme” means a warning is a core part of the book, not that the book is bad.

Emotional infidelitycentral theme
Infidelity in current relationshipcentral theme

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