· The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review. Historical fact proves more chilling than the supernatural fantasy in Jeanette Winterson's Hammer horror. Pendle Hill in Lancashire Author: Stephanie Merritt. · Winterson has crafted a protagonist who is heroic and admirable but uncertain of her own destiny, a character who explores the emotional alchemy of female relationships. The Daylight Gate is a fast-paced, vivid novella that is every bit as dark, dangerous and sexually charged as one might expect from a storyteller of Winterson’s calibre."—Brand: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. The year is and the plot to kill the King by using gunpowder has failed. The Kings men are busy not only tracking down the suspects of the plot but also to put a stop to witchcraft. Pendle in Lancashire is popular for witches and this book tells the story of Pendle. The Daylight Gate or Dusk, the time when the light becomes dark/5().
The Daylight Gate: bltadwin.ru: Jeanette Winterson: Books. Buy used: £ FREE delivery: Aug 14 - 17 Details. Used: Very Good | Details. Sold by awesome_books_ Condition: Used: Very Good. Comment: This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of. Jeanette Winterson has written a sophisticated fictional retelling of the 17th-century Pendle Witches case, The Daylight Gate. Sinclair McKay finds in it some of the author's most abiding themes. The Daylight Gate is a novella about the Pendle witch trials, written by Jeanette Winterson for the Hammer publishing imprint. Set in , it follows the events that unfold over a short period of time as a group of supposed witches congregates, a wealthy woman is accused of being one of them, and a Catholic dissident tries to re-enter the country.
The Daylight Gate. by Jeanette Winterson. Reviewed By Kaya Genc. February 18th, Imagine a modern novelist who feels the breath of history on the back of her neck while writing her latest book. History insists on historical episodes being told with appropriate language. If the book takes place in the immediate aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot of , with characters who grew up during the reign of Queen Elizabeth and watched plays of Shakespeare, then it must follow that the language. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review. A gripping and grisly gothic tale of witchery has Sarah Hall on edge. The writer Jeanette Winterson. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images. Book Summary. 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.
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