A review by scholarhect
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold by Jeanette Winterson

Did not finish book.

2.0

Abandoned halfway through. I haven't read A Winter's Tale and this modern retelling doesn't give me any inclination to. It may have been a flaw of her source material but Winterson's characters just don't hold my interest (not helped here by some very average voice acting on the audiobook version). They all feel like cliches and Leon especially is too grotesque to want to pay much attention to. Weak narrative (the worst of hers I've read so far) combined with some truly awful moments in the spoken word version, such as the triplets having a 'Chinglish' accent despite having been adopted as young children by a British missionary - which makes no sense as Perdita has the same southern drawl as her adoptive father and brother - have made this unreadable/listenable for me. Wouldn't recommend and glad I didn't buy it when I thought about it.