A love story told without revealing the narrator’s gender.

Written on the Body follows an obsessive affair with a married woman. Winterson strips away biographical markers and focuses instead on language, anatomy, and attachment. The body becomes both metaphor and literal terrain.

The story is enmeshed in the idea of how love alters perception, how memory rewrites events, how devotion tips into fixation.

Formally simple, emotionally sharp, and still unsettling.