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Lovely to win this one I'm struggling little bit but understand the concept ill 'read this a few times and tell my book friends to buy it. Thank you .

Thanks for my free copy of this fast paced modern interpretation of 'A Winter's Tale ' very witty and a joy to read.

Received my copy, thank you very much. I am enjoying this book so far. I find Jeanette Winterson's writing beautiful and enchanting, she is a confident and poignant story teller. It's a long time since I've read A Winter's Tale so the synopsis was excellent idea.
I'll report back once I've finished, but so far an intriguing and fascinating novel.

Thrilled to have received a copy, whilst I have not got far with this book yet I love the concept and I am looking forward to reading the rest of the book.

Thrilled to have won a copy. Looking forward to reading it.

Thank you to mumsnet for my free copy. It was very useful to have synopsis of A Winter's Tale at the beginning as it is not a play I know. I am really enjoying the book and actually think that this may be a way to teach Shakespeare to teenagers. The book is quite graphic but very accessible. If someone who was averse to Shakespeare were to read this and then be introduced to the Shakespeare version they would get so much more out of it intend of feeling that it was dusty, dry and irrelevant.

Loved the little references to the original and to to Jeannette Winterson herself. A clever and original take on a retelling of an older story - would definitely recommend.

A Winter's Tale was one of my A Level texts so it has always been a favourite of mine. I was intrigued by how a contemporary author would retell the story and I found it was very cleverly done. The story was fast paced and witty and I found it difficult to put down.

A great concept, which appears to very popular at the moment!! Very slickly written and rather lovely! A wander from my usual genre but am glad I read it. Definitely worth a read.

Thanks for my free copy.

I saw the Kenneth Branagh cinema streaming of the Winter's Tale earlier this year so luckily the base story was familiar and it added an extra dimension to wonder how different aspects would be dealt with in this version.

I really enjoyed this book - we have The King of Capri, a children's book by Jeannette Winterson and I think she is particularly good at the slightly otherworldly, fairy tale type tale. It is an easy read but with some memorable and beautiful passages. I'd recommend it

Thank you so much for my copy, I really enjoyed it! I have read 1 other Jeanette Winterson novel, but this was quite different. I am not really familiar with A Winter's Tale, I enjoyed the summary of the play at the beginning and found the book very was to read. I would definitely recommend it to a friend 😊

Shakespeare's "The Winters Tale" was too deep for me, and so is Jeanette
Winterson's version."The past is never dead", and quite rightly so. Life poses questions and we have to find the answers- "This is a fact of Life."

What a great book! Thanks for my free copy.

Clever concept, brilliantly executed. It should be recommended reading for all English Lit A Level students. The graphic scenes illustrate just how shocking Shakespeare's writing could be.

I'd quite happily read a whole series.

Liked the introduction of the original Shakespeare version at the beginning. The Shakespeare language was very well used. Interesting bit towards the end about Perdita and Kel's relationship. Not my usual type of read but interesting none the less.

I've just finished reading this book and have to say it was beautiful. I hadn't expected it to be so engaging but I found myself eager to keep reading wanting to know how she moved the story on whilst keeping true to the original Shakespeare play.

The name choices were very clever and the language was both simple but very evocative. I would happily recommend this to anyone whether you are a Shakespeare lover or not.

I had never read anything by Jeanette Winterson before but I will be sure to try some of her other works now I know how good she is.

Hi

Received and read my copy of the book from the giveaway today thanks :)

I've not read the Shakespeare original so found the abbreviated version at the start useful.

Interesting book - not what I was expecting at all - found some of the sexually explicit bits a surprise as wasnt expecting it.

This isnt really a book I would necessarily have picked up based on the blurb but it was surprisingly engaging and once started I really wanted to know where the characters were going (even though I kinda knew from the intro bit!)