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There are many quotable passages in this beautifully written and poignant novel, which at first read like a fantasy or a fairy-tale, but the novel complicates the stereotypes and blurs the line between reality and fantasy. Time and space, history and geography have different meanings in Winterson's vision of the world, and it is in her world that dwells the lovable characters such as the giant Dog-Woman, the boy who doesn't need a boat to sail the seven seas and the eleven dancing princesses who fly out of their window every night to dance in a floating city. Behind the fantastical characters, however, are the very real environmental and feminist issues that the novel is really concerned about. In the end, Winterson's tales are about what is means to be a woman, a man and a human being in the world that is corrupting and decaying every day. Winterson seems to say that it is only through imagination that we can be saved.
8/10
