One day, while everyone is out of the house, Leo takes the baby, devising a plan to take her out of the country. Mimi separates herself from Leo after the baby is born. While she is recovering, Leo explains his suspicions to Cameron, but Cameron sides with Mimi, telling Leo that she should divorce him.
While they are fighting, Mimi goes into labor and gives birth to a daughter. Though Mimi denies the affair, this only serves to make Leo more suspicious. Finally, Leo confronts Mimi with his suspicions. Mimi, a successful singer, has found new inspiration in her feelings for Xeno. Mimi and Xeno discuss poetry and love eventually, Xeno realizes he has feelings for Mimi. The system is not perfect so he is forced to imagine much of what is happening on the security feed.
Leo has his head of security Cameron install security cameras so he can spy on Mimi and Xeno. Leo agrees because he is plagued by guilt about an accident some years ago in which he almost killed Xeno. Leo has noticed that Mimi has become very close to Xeno and urges him to stay longer at their house. Xeno is staying with Leo while he creates a video game called The Gap of Time. He wants to get proof of her affair so that he can divorce her. Leo believes that his wife Mimi is cheating on him with his best friend, Xeno, and that Mimi is pregnant with Xeno’s child. The narrative then switches to the point of view of Leo, a wealthy businessman.
As the baby, Perdita, grows up, she realizes that she must have been adopted even though her father and brother never talk about it. Shep and Clo open the attaché case and find it full of money and jewels.
His son, Clo, urges him to return the baby, but Shep cannot bring himself to do it. Shep has been a single father since the death of his wife. Noticing a child in the BabyHatch along with a locked attaché case, Shep takes both with him. He chases the men off, but the man they were attacking is already dead. Shep, a single father, is driving by the BabyHatch when he sees two men beating a third. The Gap of Time begins outside a hospital with a BabyHatch drop-off for unwanted infants. In 2016, she was chosen as one of the BBC’s 100 Women and also elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. A multi-award winning writer, Winterson’s honors include the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the 1992 BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the 1994 Lambda Literary Award, and the 2014 St. The Gap of Time (2015), a novel by Jeanette Winterson, retells the story of Shakespeare’s play A Winter’s Tale in a contemporary setting.
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