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Grove Press
November 2013
On Sale: October 21, 2013
224 pages
ISBN: 0802121632
EAN: 9780802121639
Kindle: B00CIWZ7LA
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Historical
Set in seventeenth-century England during the reign of James
I—the monarch who wrote his own book on witchcraft—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.
This is a world where to be Catholic is a
treasonable offense. A world where England's king vows to
rid his country of “witchery popery popery witchery” and
condemns the High Mass and Black Mass as heresies punishable
by torture, hanging, and burning.
Winterson's
literary suspense tale takes us deep into a brutal period of
English history, centered on the notorious 1612 Pendle witch
trials—an infection of paranoia that crossed the ocean with
the Pilgrims and set the scene for the Salem witch
hunt.
Good Friday, 1612. Pendle Forest. A gathering
of thirteen is interrupted by local magistrate Roger Nowell.
Is this a coven or a helpless group of women trying to save
their family from the stake? Already two stand accused of
witchcraft. The wealthy, respected Alice Nutter tries to
defend them, haunted by her own past entanglement with
magick. She doesn’t believe in the Devil, but as she fights
for justice, her life is endangered by forces visible and
invisible.
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