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The Gap of Time
A Literary Fiction Novel by Jeanette Winterson
Subgenres:
- Family Drama,
- Shakespeare Retelling,
- Contemporary Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Modern retellings of Shakespeare set in post-crisis cities
- Stories where jealousy upends lives and redemption feels hard-won
- Literary fiction exploring time, technology, and fractured families
The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's "late plays." It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife.
His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited.
In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale, we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia.
Her story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, technology and the elliptical nature of time.
Written with energy and wit, this is a story of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand, and redemption and the enduring love of a lost child on the other.
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