Product Information
Reissue of Philippa Gregory's disturbing novel of passion and betrayal in Tudor England. 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...Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780006514640
eBay Product ID (ePID)89762897
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Wise Woman
AuthorPhilippa Gregory
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2002
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorPhilippa Gregory
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom