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Title	:	The Wise Woman
Author	:	Philippa Gregory
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 640 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. European Literature. British Literature. Fantasy. English History. Tudor Period

The Wise Woman

Philippa Gregory

Paperback | Pages: 640 pages

Rating: 3.32 | 8229 Users | 681 Reviews

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Alys joins a nunnery to escape the poverty of her life on the moor with her foster mother, Morach, the local wise woman with whom she lives as an outcast, but she soon finds herself thrown back into the world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. Summoned to the castle as the old lord's scribe, she falls obsessively in love with his son Hugo, who is married to Catherine. Driven to desperation by her desire, she summons the most dangerous powers Morach has taught her, but soon 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 female power.

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Original Title:	The Wise Woman
ISBN:	0006514642 (ISBN13: 9780006514640)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.32 From 8229 Users | 681 Reviews

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Very nicely written, intriguing book. I love absolutely every book written by Phillipa Gregory. She writes from the woman perspective and she seems to be a medium and a very good psychologist to be able to transfer so many feelings in her writings. Is like she was there and is telling the true story. Amazing!

Dark and twisted with a shot of horror in the mix. I loved it.

I'm a huge Philippa Gregory fan, so I don't know how the same author wrote this as wrote The Other Boleyn Girl and all those other excellent historical romances. This book really sucked! If I hadn't been out of town and away from a library, and if I'd brought anything else with me to read, I wouldn't have even finished it! And I'm a real stickler for finishing books, even bad ones, so that says it all right there. This book was really awful.

This seems like the perfect book to review for Halloweennot quite a romance, but a historical fantasy with moments of searing eroticism and truly effective horror. Im the hipster reader who liked what Philippa Gregory wrote before she was cool. Not that I dont love her Tudors work, too, but A Respectable Trade (about the slave trade in 18th century Bristol) and the Wideacre trilogy (also 18th century, about a womans scheming to gain control of the family estate) have special places in my heart.

Dark, erotic and beautifully crafted.



This historical fiction begins in 1540 and follows the tragic life of seventeen-year-old Alys, a young peasant girl in Tudor England. Alys grew up on the moor with a harsh foster-mother called Morach, the local wise woman. But turning her back on superstition and the pagan arts, Alys decides to join a nunnery. For a time she finds contentment in this orderly sanctuary. She enjoys the rigid structure, comparative luxury, and safety afforded to the Holy Sisters.But Alys happiness is short lived.