A review by birdwatching
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

3.0

Hit and miss for me - parts were exquisite with imagery, dialogue and ideas, and other parts were less successful and I got dragged down by the basil exposition. I think Jeanette Winterson really excels at depicting the endings of things. In the Stone Gods there are some gorgeously sad moments where the world is disintegrating but there is a singular, transcendent experience of love. It brought tears to my eyes a couple of times. There are also some important political points about the current state of the world (environmental destruction, rampant capitalism).