The Daylight Gate
Inbunden bok. Random House UK. 2012. 194 sidor.
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A wonderfully atmospheric, intricating woven, magical modern-day tale of the Pendle Witches. The animosity and anger betwen the accused and the accusers -- which tore the community apart in the seventeenth century -- is still going strong today.
The animosity and anger between the accused and the accusers -- which tore the community apart in the seventeenth century -- is still going strong in the present day. A couple go to Pendle and the woman is caught up in the legend that has haunted the area for centuries.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780099561859
- Titel
- The Daylight Gate
- Författare
- Jeanette Winterson
- Förlag
- Random House UK
- Utgivningsår
- 2012
- Omfång
- 194 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Häftad
- Mått
- 137 x 205 mm Ryggbredd 22 mm
- Vikt
- 298 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- GOOD FRIDAY, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell. Is this a witches' Sabbat? Two notorious Lancashire witches are already in Lancaster Castle waiting trial. Why is the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter defending them? And why is she among the group of thirteen on Pendle Hill? Elsewhere, a starved, abused child lurks. And a Jesuit priest and former Gunpowder plotter, recently returned from France, is widely rumoured to be heading for Lancashire. But who will offer him sanctuary? And how quickly can he be caught? This is the reign of James I, a Protestant King with an obsession: to rid his realm of twin evils, witchcraft and Catholicism, at any price ...
