{"product_id":"the-gap-of-time-william-shakespeare-the-winters-tale-retold-a-novel-9780804141376","title":"The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' the Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Gap of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeanette Winterson's cover version of \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeanette Winterson OBE has written ten novels, children's books, non-fiction works, and screenplays, and writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. She was adopted by Pentecostal parents and raised in Manchester to be a missionary, which she wrote about in her first novel, \u003ci\u003eOranges Are Not The Only Fruit, \u003c\/i\u003e and twenty-seven years later in her bestselling memoir, \u003ci\u003eWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e in many disguises for many years,\" Jeanette says of the play. The result is \u003ci\u003eThe Gap of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, her cover version.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hogarth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413096239378,"sku":"9780804141376","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c5b8ee08-d92f-4ba2-aaa3-bdc673b7dfb5.jpg?v=1729346254","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-gap-of-time-william-shakespeare-the-winters-tale-retold-a-novel-9780804141376","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}