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A review by marybo01
The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
emotional
relaxing
medium-paced
4.5
The book begins with a summary of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale so for anyone like me who is unfamiliar, you are given enough information to know how well the adaptation has been done.
The book gets suddenly emotional at times but on the whole it was an easy, light read that was very reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed with how clever the Shakespeare adaptation had been done. It is a story of people, and how complicated it is when the layers to a person conflict with one another. I liked how Winterson was able to keep a level of realism when setting this outlandish story in the modern world. It made it easier to get invested in the characters.
The book gets suddenly emotional at times but on the whole it was an easy, light read that was very reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed with how clever the Shakespeare adaptation had been done. It is a story of people, and how complicated it is when the layers to a person conflict with one another. I liked how Winterson was able to keep a level of realism when setting this outlandish story in the modern world. It made it easier to get invested in the characters.