"The Stone Gods is a vivid, cautionary tale- or, more precisely, a keen lament for our irremediably incautious species." Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Guardian" (UK) A glimpse into unlikely love braved in the face of the void. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet-pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Will they-and we-ever find a safe landing place? Of immense imaginary and emotional scope, The Stone Gods is Jeanette Winterson at her prescient, playful, muscular best. An interplanetary love story, a traveller's tale, a hymn to the beauty of the world, this is a novel that will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love and about stories themselves. "Everything she does suspends readers between the mind and the body, between 'atom and dream.' She is a kind of magician. She can do anything." Ali Smith "Winterson is a superb stylist with] a sly sense of humour. . . . Her writing possesses an elegance as unselfconscious and as effortless as breathing."" The Record "(Kitchener-Waterloo) "The sheer pleasure that she takes in telling stories is infectious." "The Globe and Mail" "Written in lilting, beautiful, crisply modulated prose. . .The Stone Gods is a playful but impassioned novel." "The Times "(UK)
