One Aladdin Two Lamps

An invitation to change our lives and imagine the world anew through reading stories, in the absorbing new book from Jeanette Winterson

‘A dizzying whirligig of memoir, history, philosophy, politics and self-help’ Guardian

I can change the story because I am the story.

With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night, she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of One Thousand and One Nights to to show how its questions are still relevant to our lives today. Is love the most important thing in the world? What makes us happy?

In her guise as Aladdin – the orphan who changes his world – Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know and look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and imagine the world anew.

‘Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp’ Kamila Shamsie

‘Makes you think and makes you laugh’ Nigella Lawson

‘Dazzling… A riveting look at humanity at an existential crossroads’ Independent

‘One of the most gifted writers working today’ New York Times