The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale, Retold (Shakespeare Retold) - Softcover

Winterson, Jeanette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784878820 ISBN 13: 9781784878825

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2026

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784878820
• ISBN 13: 9781784878825
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320