The Gap of Time
ABOUT
THE BOOK
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.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
The Gap of Time is Winterson’s “cover” of Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale. Though it is very much a modern novel, the characters pacing and style feel very Shakespearean , timeless and archetypal, with themes like the nature of time, family, love and sexuality.