The Daylight Gate |
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| Author:
| Winterson, Jeanette |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8021-2163-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Grove Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $24.00 |
Book Description:
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"Gripping . . . The narrative voice is irrefutab≤ this is old-fashioned storytelling, with a sermonic tone that commands and terrifies. . . . [Winterson] knows where true horror lies."--The Guardian "Sophisticated . . . Visceral . . . Utterly compulsive, thick with atmosphere and dread, but sharp intelligence too."--The Telegraph Set in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined,
The Daylight Gate is...
More Description "Gripping . . . The narrative voice is irrefutab≤ this is old-fashioned storytelling, with a sermonic tone that commands and terrifies. . . . [Winterson] knows where true horror lies."--The Guardian
"Sophisticated . . . Visceral . . . Utterly compulsive, thick with atmosphere and dread, but sharp intelligence too."--The Telegraph
Set in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined, The Daylight Gate is best-selling writer Jeanette Winterson’s re-creation of a dark history full of complicated morality, sex, and tragic plays for power. A literary suspense tale based on the most notorious witch trials in English history, this Gothic chiller opens in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when every Catholic conspirator in England fled to an untamed place far from the reach of London law.
Good Friday, 1612. Deep in the woods of Pendle Hill, amidst mossy baptismal pools and low, thick fog, a gathering of thirteen is interrupted by local magistrate Roger Nowell. Two of their coven are already imprisoned for witchcraft and are awaiting trial, but those that remain are vouched for by the wealthy and respected Alice Nutter.
Shrouded in mystery and gifted with eternally youthful beauty, Alice is established in Lancashire society and insulated by her fortune. But she is also plagued by questionable allegiances and rumors of a lethally torrid love affair with another woman, the matriarch of the notorious Device clan. As the persecuted retreat into darkness and throw their hopes behind the promise of a vengeful magic, Alice stands alone as a realm-crosser, a conjurer of powers that will either destroy her or set her free.
This is the reign of the brutal Protestant king James I. This is Lancashire. This is Pendle. This is witch country.