And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love.” Franz Schubert, in his manuscript “My Dream,” a kind of embryonic vision of his song cycle Die Winterreise, uncannily describes the effect of this earlier winter’s tale: “Whenever I tried to sing of love, it turned to pain. The final act is nothing so simple as a reversal of the previous action it is as if the fourth act is the child of the previous play, both echoing and changing what has happened before. The Winter’s Tale is, famously, a play that begins as tragedy, and transforms itself at the very end of its third act, with the intervention of Time itself, into another play altogether, neither tragedy nor comedy, but a miraculous fusion of both, of meeting simultaneously with “things dying” and “things newborn.” The structure of the play corresponds organically with the plot, resolved through the finding of a lost daughter. Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time, the inaugural volume of what Hogarth Press is calling, borrowing the language of recording studios, “cover versions” of Shakespeare’s plays, is a retelling of the late romance The Winter’s Tale, first performed at the Globe and then before King James I at court in 1611. 'Emotionally wrought and profoundly intelligent.Miranda Raison as Hermione and Kenneth Branagh as Leontes in Branagh’s and Rob Ashford’s production of The Winter’s Tale at the Garrick Theatre, London, 2015 'Pulsates with such authenticity and imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it'
'There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps'
A supremely clever, compelling and emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers' 'Emotionally wrought and profoundly intelligent. 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. 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. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia.
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