The Wise Woman
Author: Philippa Gregory
Category: Literature
Published: 1995
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Read OnlineAlys 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. She uses witchcraft to win a lover but since heresy against the new church means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys's danger is mortal.