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A story of love and jealousy, tragedy and forgiveness, a lost child and a found family

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´A shining delight of a novel´
New York Times ´Clever and beautiful...it soars´
Financial Times

A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief.

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.

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.´Emotionally wrought and profoundly intelligent... A supremely clever, compelling and emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers´
Mail on Sunday ´There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps´
Observer´Pulsates with such authenticity and imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it´
Independent

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" Clever and beautiful...it soars " Financial Times

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Jeanette Winterson OBE has written 10 novels, children´s books, non-fiction and screenplays, and writes regularly for the Guardian. She was adopted by Pentecostal parents and raised in Manchester to be a missionary, which she wrote about in her first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and twenty-seven years later in her bestselling memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? The Winter´s Tale tells the story of Perdita, the abandoned child. ´All of us have talismanic texts that we have carried around and that carry us around. I have worked with The Winter´s Tale in many disguises for many years,´ Jeanette says of the play. The result is The Gap of Time, her cover version.

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