Ron plans to exploit post-Brexit tax breaks by opening a factory in Wales and Winterson says: “I hate to see how my class has been manipulated by people who have no thought and no care for them. Then I started to see it from Ron’s point of view and I wanted to tell his story more. “I intended not to like Ron because I’ve done research and found that people who make sex dolls are not user friendly for women. Ry falls in love with Ron who’s trying to make his fortune by designing sex dolls. “Much western thought rests upon the idea that there is a core self that we can know and perfect, but probably there isn’t.” Jeanette Winterson leaves Buckingham Palace after receiving her CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) at an Investiture ceremony. The idea of identity being provisional fed into this novel. Her new novel’s present day characters include Ry, a young transgender doctor, and Winterson says: “One of my god children identifies as transgender and I’ve been reading a lot about that because I thought I needed to understand. ‘One of my god children identifies as transgender and I’ve been reading a lot about that because I thought I needed to understand’ Anybody who can imagine something is in control.” “By its nature, reading slows us down,” she says, “so I’m pushing against the acceleration of modern life and trying to create imaginative space for readers to inhabit.
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