One Aladdin Two Lamps

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 Shahrazad in ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ to reveal new questions and answers we are still thinking about today. Who should we trust? Is love the most important thing in the world? Does it matter whether you are honest? What makes us happy?In her guise as Aladdin – the orphan who changes his world – Jeanette Winterson asks us to re-read 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 alter endings we wish to subvert.