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  • Published: 1 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473524118
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 7 hr 9 min
  • Narrators: Penelope Rawlins, Mark Bazeley, Ben Onwukwe
  • RRP: $19.99
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The Gap of Time

The Winter's Tale, Retold




Shakespeare's story of loss and redemption, retold by Jeanette Winterson

‘I saw the strangest sight tonight.’

New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up – light as a star – and decides to take her home.


London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesn’t know how to manage the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife. Is his newborn baby even his?

New Bohemia. 17 years later. A boy and a girl are falling in love but there’s a lot they don’t know about who they are and where they come from.


Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story where Time itself is a player in a game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found.

  • Published: 1 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473524118
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 7 hr 9 min
  • Narrators: Penelope Rawlins, Mark Bazeley, Ben Onwukwe
  • RRP: $19.99
Categories:

About the author

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn’t work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London. She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.

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