With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of England's most celebrated young writers, Jeanette Winterson has written her most beguilingly seductive novel to date.
The narrator of Written on the Body has neither name nor gender; the beloved is a married woman. And as Winterson chronicles their consuming affair, she compels us to see love stripped of clichés and categories, as a phenomenon as visceral as blood and organs, bone and tissue-and as strange as an undiscovered continent.