# The Gap of Time

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- Book: [The Gap of Time](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeanette-winterson/the-gap-of-time) ([The Gap of Time.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeanette-winterson/the-gap-of-time.md))
- Authors: [Jeanette Winterson](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeanette-winterson)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-882-5
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2026-03-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is revolutionised by the iconic Jeanette Winterson in her page-turning, heart-breaking story of a baby girl banished from home. 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. ‘A shining delight of a novel’ New York Times 'Clever and beautiful... it soars' Financial Times SHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.