The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson

Monopoly Book Challenge - States Avenue - Mostly Black Cover

As I still have a few of the Hogarth Shakespeare adaptations to complete, I was pleased that this fit the Monopoly Book Challenge.

I enjoyed the modern depictions of the characters from The Winter's Tale, but I could have done without some of the erotica and the overly crass language. Though, in adapting the often bawdy Shakespeare and a tale of a jealous husband I can see why an author would choose this route.

I did particularly like Winterson's take on how Hermione's (MiMi) broken heart effects her.

Quotes: "He was interested in everything, attentive to people, genuinely kind and entirely present when he was present. But he was never sorry to close the door at night or to be alone."

"...the point of time was that it would end - if it went on forever then it wouldn't be time, would it?"

"He doesn't take a photo or a video because he wants to remember - by which he means he wants to misremember because the moment is made up of what the camera can't capture."

"It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change."

"...if you put aside "And They All Lived Happily Ever After", which isn't an ending, but a coda."