![]() ‘Emotionally wrought and profoundly intelligent. 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. 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. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. ![]() ![]() ![]() A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. The Gap of Time: a Novel Jeanette Winterson Hogarth, October 2015 The thing about submerging yourself into Jeanette Winterson’s prose is that you can’t just take the easy road through the story: Winterson demands active participation from her readers. ![]()
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