The Daylight Gate

"This book serves as a portal in prose, through which readers fully enter bloody, raucous England seven years after the undoing of the infamous Gunpowder Plot, when Catholic terrorists attempted to blow up the Parliament of the Protestant King James I. Jeanette Winterson’s bold sentences and pithy but authentic scenes quickly build sympathy for her outlier characters: the naysayers; the mad, violated children; the same-sex lovers. Any reader who crosses over into this novel will remember vividly where he or she has traveled."