Ebook {Epub PDF} The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson

 · Jeanette Winterson's The Daylight Gate follows the witches and outcasts of 17th century England. The titular gate is a portal to hell — but England itself has Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.  · 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 Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.  · 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 Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

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."—Scotland on Sunday "A story about the sacrifices people make for those they love [Winterson]describes the area and the claustrophobic atmosphere beautifully. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson I first came across the Pendle Witches in Robert Neill's novel 'Mist over Pendle' (Published ). At the time I really enjoyed Neill's version of events but I recall that the witches, Alice Nutter in particular, were not viewed particularly sympathetically. Jeanette Winterson CBE (born 27 August ) is an English writer whose fame came with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against convention. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She broadcasts and teaches creative writing.

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. 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. The Daylight Gate, an instant bestseller in the UK, 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. After the Gunpowder Plot of , every Catholic conspirator in England fled to a wild, untamed place far from the reach of London law.