Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out.
Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 12 novels for adults, 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.
She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.
Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out.
Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 12 novels for adults, 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.
She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.
Based on the Pendle witch trials of 1612, an extraordinary story of magic, superstition, and ruthless murder by Jeanette Winterson, author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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.
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. It’s 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. It’s so seductive that by the middle I was hooked.
*Independent*
Sharp-eyed view of history... Winterson is at her best her when
she’s 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 author’s 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
Winterson’s 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 Winterson’s characteristic intelligence and
energy... lively and enjoyable.
*New Statesman*
Beautifully written.
*Independent on Sunday*
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