Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, has published The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson. This novel, the first installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series, features Winterson’s adaptation of The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare.
Here’s more from The New York Times: “Ms. Winterson read the play over and over before she started working on the novel, so that she could immediately recall the plot points and transform them into something new. She turned the jealous King Leontes into a possessive banker named Leo, who suspects his wife, a singer named MiMi, is cheating on him with his best friend, a video game designer named Xeno. Leo believes his newborn daughter is not his child and sends her away. She’s left at a hospital and adopted by a kindly widower, who names her Perdita.”
Follow this link to download a digital copy of Shakespeare’s original play. The publisher also recruited Anne Tyler, Gillian Flynn, Margaret Atwood, Jo Nesbø, Edward St. Aubyn, Howard Jacobson and Tracy Chevalier for the project. Tyler chose The Taming of The Shrew, Flynn chose Hamlet, Atwood chose The Tempest, Nesbø chose Macbeth, St. Aubyn chose King Lear, Jacobson chose The Merchant of Venice, and Chevalier chose Othello.
Jacobson’s book, entitled Shylock Is My Name, will be released on Feb. 9, 2016. Tyler’s book, entitled Vinegar Girl, will follow on June 7, 2016.