The Daylight Gate Jeanette Winterson by Jeanette Winterson 9781786091321, 1786091321 instant download after payment.

The Daylight Gate is award-winning Jeanette Winterson's singular vision of a dark period of complicated morality, sex, and tragic plays for power in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined.

"If you like her other novels, you will adore this. She has done her homework... the beauty of the writing, exemplary in its pared-down simplicity. It’s so seductive that by the middle I was hooked."  -  Independent

On Good Friday, 1612, deep in the woods of Pendle Hill, a gathering of thirteen is interrupted by the local magistrate. Two of their coven have already been imprisoned for witchcraft and are awaiting trial, but those who 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. As those accused of witchcraft retreat into darkness, Alice stands alone as a realm-crosser, a conjurer of powers that will either destroy her or set her free.

"Gripping ...The narrative voice is irrefutable; this is old-fashioned storytelling, with a sermonic tone that commands and terrifies... [Winterson] knows where true horror lies. Not in fantastical dimensions, but in the terrestrial world." - The Guardian

"Vigorous... Filled with Winterson's characteristic intelligence and energy... This dark story with its fantastical trappings of magic and mysticism, its strong women and wild, Lancastrian setting is Winterson's natural habitat and she maps it with relish."  -  New Statesman