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ISBN: 1416590889

ISBN13: 9781416590880

The Wise Woman

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory weaves an unforgettable tale of a young woman's sorcery and desire in Henry VIII's England, where magic, lust, and power are forever intertwined.

Growing up as an abandoned outcast on the moors, young Alys' only company is her cruel foster mother, Morach, the local wise woman who is whispered to practice the dark arts. Alys joins a nunnery to escape the poverty and loneliness she has felt all her life, but all too soon her sanctuary is destroyed. King Henry VIII's followers burn the holy place to the ground, and Alys only just manages to escape with her life, haunted by the screams of her sisters as they burned to death.

She finds work in a castle not far from where she grew up as an old lord's scribe, where she falls obsessively in love with his son Hugo. But Hugo is already married to a proud woman named Catherine. Driven to desperation by her desire, she summons the most dangerous powers Morach taught her, but quickly the passionate triangle of Alys, Hugo, and Catherine begins to explode, launching them into uncharted sexual waters. The magic Alys has conjured now has a life of its own--a life that is horrifyingly and disastrously out of control.

Is she a witch? Since heresy means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys is in mortal danger, treading a perilous path between her faith and her own power.
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Born in 1954 in Nairobi, Kenya, Philippa Gregory moved with her family to England as a toddler. Gregory wrote her first novel while working on her doctorate in eighteenth century literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her internationally best-selling novel, The Other Boleyn Girl, won the Romant... Learn More About This Author

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Rated 4 stars
The Wise Woman

This story is the fight between good and evil. The main character seems childish and confused. She surcombs to evil and bits the hand that feeds her. The main character tends to lie in very bad circumstances and blames those who have helped her. At the end evil takes over and leaves the reader thinking what happened.

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Rated 5 stars
The Most Spellbinding Phillipa Gregory Book!

Having already read The Other Boleyn Girl, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover and Earthly Joys, I hardly thought this one would compare. How wrong I was! I was so captivated by Alys', the main character's, plight. I was at first outraged and then empathetic of her decisions, remembering she was a mere immature seventeen year-old. How can anyone fault her - given the medieval times this story would have taken place. I...

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Rated 5 stars
Page turner every step of the way

While this book is not like her other historical fictions, it is still one of the best books I have read in a long time. I loved it so much I bought one for my Mom, Aunt and best friend, all of them also loved it. This book is a little twisted, but in a very real way. You can completely relate with the main character as she makes one bad decision after another that leads her down a trail of witchcraft, seduction, betrayal...

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Rated 5 stars
A selfish, lying, unfaithful, scheming, ambitious 16 yr old!

I loved this book. What a real character, full of flaws. What a pretty 16 year old nun who suddenly finds herself in the real world in the time of Henry VIII might actually do. Not mature enough to make good decisions, selfish and wicked enough to wish people harm and definitely immature enough to not realize that there is a reaction to every action. Well done. I have waited a year of reading two books a month to find...

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Rated 5 stars
not so smart for a wise woman

This is a brilliant dark story of a young girl and her quest to live like a queen. She wants the prize of 'lady of the house' and will stop at nothing to get it. She uses her power to reach for her dreams, only to realise that the prize wasn't hers. She is a false woman, and slowly becomes entrapped in her own lies.Despite the bleakness of the story and the wickedness of Alys, I still liked her! She felt she was destined...

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