The Wise Woman

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The Wise Woman The Wise Woman

Author: Philippa Gregory

Category: Literature

Published: 1995

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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. 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.