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The WISE WOMAN by Philippa Gregory is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The WISE WOMAN about?

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!

Who reads The WISE WOMAN?

Author

Philippa Gregory

Publisher

New York: Pocket Books

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439101995

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.3 / 5 (554 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14