Posted on May 25, 2008 by Pinaki Goswami

Name of the book: The Wise Woman

Author: Philippa Gregory

Publisher: Pocket Books

Alys joins a nunnery to escape poverty but is thrown out when Henry VIII’s troops destroy her sanctuary. With her looks, magic and cunning, Alys treads a perilous path between faith and her female urges. She fails in love with the feudal lord Hugo, another woman’s husband, and dabbles in witchcraft to win her lover. But magic makes a dominant master. Since heresy against the new church leads to the stake and witchcraft to the noose, Alys is in danger. A woman’s powers are no longer safe to use…..

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