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Personal life

In 2002, Winterson ended her 12-year relationship with BBC radio broadcaster and academic Peggy Reynolds.^[12] Since then she has been involved with theatre director Deborah Warner and therapist Susie Orbach.^[13] Her novel The Passion was inspired by her affair with Pat Kavanagh, her literary agent.^[14]