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The Gap of Time

William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel

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The Gap of Time

By: Jeanette Winterson
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Mark Bazeley, Ben Onwukwe
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 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. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction
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