The Wise Woman
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Word Count
156,500 words, Guess
Page Count
626 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewisewoman0000greg_v9f6
- Internet Archivewisewoman0000greg_l9h7
- ISBN-100140167811
- ISBN-139780140167818
- Goodreads1300282
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- LibraryThing75881
- OCLC Control Number60074055
- Better World Books9780140167818
- Open LibraryOL18450377M
Classifications
- DDC823.914
Description
This is 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!
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