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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 Iβthe monarch who wrote his own book on witchcraftβThe Daylight Gate is best-selling writer Jeanette Wintersonβs 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 βwitchery popery popery witcheryβ 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 trialsβan 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 doesnβt believe in the Devil, but as she fights for justice, her life is endangered by forces visible and invisible.
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