A glorious, sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate.

Harvey has struck gold… Perhaps because it is so intimate, so honest, so raw, Dear Thief provokes you to think about life, and Life, and your own life.

Beautiful... Exhilarating... Remarkable

Compassionate, matter-of-fact and mysterious about death and its ultimate transforming… Harvey offers an incandescent vision of hope and acceptance.

A quiet, unusual book, full of sad truths. I loved this epistolary novel of friendship, betrayal and forgiveness.

Harvey’s writing is stunning: an effortless spool that winds back the layers… Brilliant.

Singular and haunting.

A hypnotic read about jealousy, nostalgia and how being wronged by a friend can bruise you as badly as a broken heart.

Indubitably intelligent, Harvey’s prose is also quite simply ravishing.

Harvey’s writing is clever and thoughtful, filled with striking insights and wisdom.

By far the best thing she’s done.

From its opening sentences, this novel of jealousy and friendship holds you in its grip…. Harvey’s prose manages to be both wistful and unpretentious, capturing perfectly the relationship between two women in all its complexity.

Compassionate, matter-of-fact, and mysterious about death and its ultimate transforming.

Harvey handles the most difficult of subjects- ageing and death- with her distinctive brand of mystic pragmatism.

Atmospheric

Dear Thief is one of those quiet and clever books that is about everything and nothing all at once.

With a few deft strokes Winterson creates Shakespeare’s characters in contemporary clothing keeping me in suspense throughout. It is a triumph and a good omen for this ambitious new project.

Reading Jeanette Winterson takes you to a place where words have power, and are capable of transforming people's lives.

[A] witty and funky adaptation

Winterson largely and ingeniously stays faithful to Shakespeare’s magical realist plot… and captures the play’s quizzical, questioning, redemptive spirit while remaining impressively true to her own.

Wonderfully imaginative

Spins through an exhilarating array of genres. The sensational opening chapter enmeshes the reader in a rollercoaster ride of tragedy, comedy, thriller, fantasy, chicklit, plus a few pages of raunchy sex

The Gap of Time takes nothing away from The Winter's Tale. If anything it might add to it, or at least to its resonance and mystery. It is an impressive achievement, especially as Winterson manages the contradictions of comedy and tragedy in a way which suits both their modern likelihood and their moral implications

A witty retelling.

Her new story retains the essence of Shakespeare, but filters his comedy and sentiment through feminism and technology.

Filled with her wit and seriously thought-provoking ideas, Winterson’s writing is a pleasure… This is a well told, beautiful, magical and wonderfully evocative story which resonates with our contemporary lives.

The Gap of Time is an ingenious retelling of The Winter’s Tale… [Winterston] Made it new with her own bold and poetic prose and her insights into love and grief. There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps… Perhaps most surprising is how readily the plot translates to a modern context; how plausible this version seems, for all its knowing self-reference.

Those addicted to Shakespeare’s marvellous depiction of jealousy, guilt and teenage joie de vivre will be identifying and falling in love again with characters and their fateful lives… Plunge into The Gap of Time as a fresh, vibrant example of contemporary writing with an original, thought-provoking storyline… The Gap of Time is a top-quality novel.

Stylish and accomplished.

The Winter’s Tale meets House of Cards. Engrossing and ingenious, it deftly rewrites Shakespeare’s lamentation of destructive jealousy as an indictment of deregulated capitalism.

Winterson charms with her playful translation of the cast from the courts of Sicily and Bohemia into our own quotidian life

She deftly captures all the magic and raw emotion of the original.