The Daylight Gate
Häftad bok. Random House UK. English text!. 2012. 224 sidor.
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Good Friday 1612. Pendle Hill. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by a local magistrate. Is it a witches' Sabbat? In Lancaster Castle two notorious witches await trial and certain death, while the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter rides to their defence. Elsewhere a starved child lurks. And a Jesuit priest and former Gunpowder plotter makes his way from France to a place he believes will offer him sanctuary. But will it? And how safe can anyone be in Witch Country?
Jeanette Winterson, OBE, född 27 augusti 1959, är en brittisk författare. Hon har bland annat skrivit den självbiografiska romanen Det finns annan frukt än apelsiner.
Jeanette Winterson, CBE (born 27 August 1959) is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780099561835
- Titel
- The Daylight Gate
- Författare
- Winterson, Jeanette
- Förlag
- Random House UK
- Utgivningsår
- 2013
- Omfång
- 224 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 131 x 200 mm Ryggbredd 16 mm
- Vikt
- 182 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...
