Written on the Body. Janet Winterson

A story of passionate love and heartbreak, in which memories of past love affairs are bizarrely intertwined with an obsession with the body of the beloved woman, which is one with her soul. In this story, the stream of consciousness alternates with funny life incidents, and medical and physiological intersperses with feverish dreams about the beloved, which creates a unique plot. Janet Winterson is always experimenting, she likes to tease the reader with riddles: in this novel it remains unknown who is telling this story of crazy passion and lost love - a man or a woman.

"Writings on the Body" is a long love letter that J. Winterson wrote in memory of her relationship with Patricia Kavanagh, her literary agent and wife of Julian Barnes, embodying her in the image of the red-haired Louise, who appears now as a Virgin imprisoned in a tower, now embodied in the letter L as a monogram from an ancient book, now as a lustful woman whose body is a palimpsest with a secret code of passion.