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Rent The Wise Woman
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 528
Synopsis
In this book, originally published after her bestselling debut with the Wideacre trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory takes readers to Henry VIII's England, on a journey to the outer reaches of passion, where magic and female power meet.
Alys joins a nunnery to escape the poverty of her life on the moor with her foster mother, Morach, the local wise woman with whom she lives as an outcast, but she soon finds herself thrown back into the world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. Summoned to the castle as the old lord's scribe, she falls obsessively in love with his son Hugo, who is married to Catherine. Driven to desperation by her desire, she summons the most dangerous powers Morach has taught her, but soon the passionate triangle of Alys, Hugo, and Catherine begins to explode, launching them into uncharted sexual waters. The magic Alys has conjured now has a life of its own -- a life that is horrifyingly and disastrously out of control.
Is she a witch? Since heresy means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys is in mortal danger, treading a perilous path between her faith and her own female power.
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Reviews
I have been reading Philippa Gregorys books in chronological order since the beginning and have been plowing through! I have loved all of her books starting with The Women of the Cousins War! Until I got to this one. I dont know what it was.... I just couldnt get through it. I didnt find myself emotionally invested in the characters or the plot. I got about half of the way through and I could pretty well guess the rest of the story since the one woman knows the future and hints at it in the book.I had this book sitting on my nightstand for months but Id only read a chapter every once in a while and nothing compelled me to keep reading. I was just bored with this book. Sorry for the vague opinion.
This was a good story - not in the same league as the Wideacre series nor as good as some of her others since then i.e., Katherine.
This book was excellent and kept you guessing until the end. Philippa Gregory has written yet another great book.