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|author=Jeanette Winterson
|title=The Gap of Time
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This is the inaugural volume of a new series of Shakespeare retellings from Hogarth Press. Still to come: Margaret Atwood on ''The Tempest'', Howard Jacobson on ''The Merchant of Venice'' and Anne Tyler on ''The Taming of the Shrew'', among others. How is this first book? It's pretty good as Winterson novels go, incorporating Shakespearean themes of time, deception and adoption and turning bears and statues into metaphors while remaining loyal to the essence of the plot. Yet two crucial elements of the play don't make sense in a modern setting, and in the end I felt this added nothing to my enjoyment of the original.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781090297</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Lucy Adlington
|summary= Tediously captivating may not sound like the most compelling recommendation for a book you've ever heard. Yet it's the nearest I can come to summing up the style of this novel, which features some of the most beautiful language and imagery I've ever read whilst telling a story which moves at a glacial pace.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191070203X</amazonuk>
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