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AUTHOR: Jeanette Winterson
PUBLISHER: Hammer
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: 2012
PAGES: 194
ISBN: 9780099561859
AWARDS: Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Lesbian General Fiction (2014)
The Daylight Gate
by Jeanette Winterson
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…
INCLUSION CRITERIA
A main character is attracted to people of multiple genders. Unknown if specific label is used on-page.
TROPES
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