A shining delight of a novel' New York Times ' Clever & beautifulit soars' Financial Times 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 & tells a story of hearts broken & hearts healed a story of revenge & forgiveness a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found Emotionally wrought & profoundly intelligent A supremely clever compelling & emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers' Mail on Sunday ' There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps' Observer' Pulsates with such authenticity & imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it' Independent