![]() 'Emotionally wrought and profoundly intelligent. ![]() ![]() 'Pulsates with such authenticity and imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it' 'There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps' A supremely clever, compelling and emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers' Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original and tells a story of hearts broken and hearts healed, a story of revenge and forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out. The Gap of Time Jeanette Winterson 3.69 7,909 ratings1,296 reviews The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s late plays. ![]() ![]() Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. The Gap of Time is a modern-day retelling of Shakespeares 'The Winters Tale' as part of a larger series of authors doing the same for several of his works. Leo believes that his wife Mimi is cheating on him with his best friend, Xeno, and that Mimi is pregnant with Xenos child. A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. ![]()
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