The Daylight Gate

If you like her other novels, you will adore this. She has done her homework... the beauty of the writing, exemplary in its pared-down simplicity. Its so seductive that by the middle I was hooked. * Independent * If you like her other novels, you will adore this. She has done her homework... the beauty of the writing, exemplary in its pared-down simplicity. Its so seductive that by the middle I was hooked. * Independent * Sharp-eyed view of history... Winterson is at her best her when shes dealing with real horrors. * Observer * This is a dazzling book. Winterson is a deft storyteller and a writer of wonderful economy. It is one of the very few contemporary novels that I actually wished were longer. * Literary Review * A book worth reading utterly compulsive, thick with atmosphere and dread, but sharp intelligence too...Ultimately she combines compelling history and poetic dialogue with suspense...This rather more sophisticated story would make a particularly vivid film. * Telegraph * Winterson seamlessly blends history with fiction... The Daylight Gate is an enthralling story unfussily told, I read it all in one sitting, only wishing there were more. * Evening Standard * Winterson weaves history with fiction in this atmospheric and totally captivating novel. Cancel your plans, you won't want to put this down. * Daily Express * Told with the authors usual aplomb and should appeal to her many fans. * Daily Mail * This dark story with its fantastical trappings of magick and mysticism, its strong women and wild, Lancastrian setting is Wintersons natural habitat and she maps it with relish, weaving Shakespearean themes of ambiguous love affairs conducted by shape-shifting, androgynous lovers around the dire squalor superstition and sheer desperation revealed by the bleak facts of the trial...Filled with Wintersons characteristic intelligence and energy... lively and enjoyable. * New Statesman * Beautifully written. * Independent on Sunday *

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.