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The Wise Woman

ID 371488
Slug the-wise-woman-philippa-gregory
Contributors
Author : Philippa Gregory
Annotation
Description <p>A haunting story of a woman's desire in a time of turbulence. Alys joins the nunnery to escape hardship and poverty but finds herself thrown back into the outside world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. With nothing to support her but her looks, her magic and her own instinctive cunning, Alys has to tread a perilous path between the faith of her childhood and her own female power. When she falls in love with Hugo, the feudal lord and another woman's husband, she dips into witchcraft to defeat her rival and to win her lover, but finds - as her cynical old foster-mother had advised - that magic makes a poor servant but a dominant master. Since heresy against the new church means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys's danger is mortal. A woman's powers are no longer safe to use...</p>
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Publisher HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
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Language eng
Page count 640
Duration
Publication date first 2002-01-01
Publication date latest 2020-02-19
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