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The Daylight Gate

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The Daylight Gate

By: Jeanette Winterson
Narrated by: Nicola Barber
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The Daylight Gate, an instant best seller 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 1605, every Catholic conspirator in England fled to a wild, untamed place far from the reach of London law. On Good Friday, 1612, deep in the woods of Pendle Hill, amid baptismal pools and low, thick fog, a gathering of 13 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. Yet she is also plagued by rumors of a dark and torrid love affair with another woman, the matriarch of the notorious Demdike clan. 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.

©2012 Jeanette Winterson. Recorded by arrangement with Grove/Atlantic, Inc. (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Scary England Witchcraft Mystery
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talented storyteller. especially like her ghost stories in her Christmas collection. this was entertaining and imaginative. Reminds,me of Diana Garaboldon

MS winterson

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Probably could have been a suspenseful thriller if it had been given more thought and time to develop the characters. I pretty much went away disliking all the characters and hoping all of them would end up being drowned as witches.

waste of time.

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