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|title=The Daylight Gate

|author=Jeanette Winterson

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780099561859

|pages=208

|publisher=Hammer

|date=August 2012

|summary=If you didn't think Jeanette Winterson and the world of Hammer Horror could meet successfully, then think again.

}}

1610s Lancashire, and Alice Nutter is the best landowner you could wish for. Single, rich and connected, she takes no sides in the religious schisms James I has inherited, and takes no bull from those trying to oppress the poor, putting them up and feeding them when no-one else will. But those poor are seen as sinful by others - amoral, dirty in mind, body and spirit, and in league with the devil. And people are beginning to question Alice's attitudes, choice of company - and ageless beauty. This, then, is the based-on-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one of the accused in the Pendle Witch trials.

With one huge film (based on [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill]]) written and adapted by women, and two launch books both at the hands of females, Hammer show the power of women engaging with the dark side, and seeing what comes across at dusk. This story embodies that very well indeed.

The Pendle Witches have been dealt with before - we really appreciated [[Burning Issy by Melvin Burgess]] as a teen read good enough for all, that puts a fictional character in the mix.

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